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Freenode Hijacked (Part 2)

posted by takyon on Sunday May 23 2021, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the Naruto-fan dept.

Freenode hijacked

Free Software Projects Defenestrate The Freenode IRC Network
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management
Developers flee Freenode after 'takeover' by Korean crown prince
Freenode Debacle Prompts Staff Exodus, New Network
IRC Will Never Die
On freenode and its commitment to FOSS (Andrew Lee's May 19th response)
https://libera.chat/ (new network)

wirelessduck writes:

https://kline.sh/

Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power

wirelessduck writes:

https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse

There have been several allegations of this since the handover of the Freenode infrastructure to its new custodians, but I can now provide a first-hand account of one incident — because I am the victim of it.

A channel which I registered, ##hntop, has been taken over by Andrew Lee (rasengan) without my knowledge or consent.

...

Conclusions. In other words, it appears that a Freenode services admin, presumably rasengan,

  • forcibly dropped the channel and reregistered it so as to put themselves in control of it, and render me no longer in control of it;
  • clearly did this with the express purpose of frustrating an attempt by that channel's founder (me) to relocate it to another IRC network; and
  • cover up the fact that I had sought to do so.

Original Submission #1  Original Submission #2 

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Monday May 24 2021, @12:50AM (3 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 24 2021, @12:50AM (#1138084) Journal

    The private company making a bid to take control of .org could not advance any plausible reason why the transfer would be beneficial to the users. The best they had was vague bull about The Market.

    There wasn't any good reason, of course. It was painfully obvious that they were parasites looking to snag control of a monopoly, so they could collect excessive rents, for nothing.

    What the heck are the new controllers of Freenode after? It doesn't seem like money and greed is their sole motivation.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday May 24 2021, @02:57AM

    by c0lo (156) on Monday May 24 2021, @02:57AM (#1138124) Journal

    The private company making a bid to take control of .org could not advance any plausible reason why the transfer would be beneficial to the users.

    Allegedly, it will continue to exist. For whatever its existence worth after.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 24 2021, @11:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 24 2021, @11:01AM (#1138195)

    What the heck are the new controllers of Freenode after? It doesn't seem like money and greed is their sole motivation.

    They want to reshape it after their own personal ideals: https://irc.com [irc.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 24 2021, @03:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 24 2021, @03:59PM (#1138241)

    The same thing Twitter and Facebook are after: Data mining the users to sell to the highest bidder. That is the market they are interested in. That some of those users are abused minorities living under oppressive regimes just means Lee will get some government sales to pad the budget.