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.