26 May
2021
26 May
'21
9:21 a.m.
On Wed, 26 May 2021, 08:45 Cédric Jeanneret <cjeanner@redhat.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I think we shouldn't let this one die in silence. Apparently, new policies are being enforcing within Freenode and, if by mistake, a channel promotes another IRC network in their topic, they will be taken by freenode staff - meaning loss of rights, loss of ownership, and topic will be changed.
To be more specific, around 700 channels were just purged and moved to offtopic (double hash) namespace *just for having "libera" mentioned in its title.* It makes the case rather clear: Freenode is now indeed operated by hostile entity treating the once-popular communications platform as their own playground.