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Freenode hijacked
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Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power
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.
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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.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Arik on Monday May 24 2021, @05:54AM
A very old and well established one that just underwent a corporate takeover, from the sounds of it.
IRC is Internet Relay Chat.
Those who do not know it, are condemned to reïnvent it, /en perpetua/, and badly.
The attack here, it's important to note, had nothing to do with IRC. IRC had ridiculously nonexistent security or privacy provisions; but it left room for servers to provide them at least. This is just a corporate takeover - anything that has legal existence can be seized. Domain name? Provider contracts? Anarchist collectives have always had a difficult time getting a fair shake with the legal or commercial systems.
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