Some history! In December 2016, rasengan (via Private Internet Access) sponsors it (https://snoonet.org/posts/2016/12/15/introducing-our-newest-partner-privat

Some history! In December 2016, rasengan (via Private Internet Access) sponsors it (https://snoonet.org/posts/2016/12/15/introducing-our-newest-partner-private-internet-access/ https://snoonet.org/posts/2016/12/15/introducing-our-newest-...). In May 2017, Snoonet joins the the PIA family (https://snoonet.org/posts/2017/05/11/snoonet-joins-the-privateinternetaccesscom-family/ https://snoonet.org/posts/2017/05/11/snoonet-joins-the-priva...). At that time, rdv, a co-founder of Snoonet, was hired at LTM as (among other titles) "Community Relations Manager", and announced to the staff that he could now "offer LTM's resources to Snoonet; the same resources provided to Freenode", while reassuring that "the idea is to keep IRC networks in tact and operational as they always were". His goal at LTM was to "protect and keep in tact what matters most: underground communities". bloodygonzo, a staffer, precised to the staff that "LTM has bought Snoonet and will officially cover snoonet and make sure we have the legal and administrative aid of LTM. LTM has agreed to leave snoonet as is and continue to allow us to run things as we see fit.". In October 2018, Snoonet partners with IRC.com (https://snoonet.org/posts/2018/11/22/important-changes-to-snoonet-and-a-partnership-with-irccom/ https://snoonet.org/posts/2018/11/22/important-changes-to-sn...), linking the two. noeatnosleep (who worked at LTM, at a role to safeguard LTM's investment) then the head of staff (allegedly not installed in this post by a general consensus), commented on [hn](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17376571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17376571): "LTM provides servers for us, with no asks or meddling". prawnsalad says to the staff that "so yea, snoonet.org will still be independant as mcuh as it can be. the branding, the communities here, etc, wont change. and noeatnosleep is still running that side of thigns to grow snoonet". In February 2019, prawnsalad clarifies the IRC.com partnership (https://gist.github.com/prawnsalad/e61069c23e9fc0ed0e4658cbf47a4c4a https://gist.github.com/prawnsalad/e61069c23e9fc0ed0e4658cbf...), including that "Snoonet is a project under the IRC.com company". This is discussed in an irc channel with the staff (https://sand.cat/fiW5QDYXauoKwybL/snoo-takeover.txt https://sand.cat/fiW5QDYXauoKwybL/snoo-takeover.txt), where some reproach that he had previously said that "While for the most part Snoonet is entirely free to do as it pleases,". In October 2019, prawnsald decides to bring IRC.com and Snoonet more "inline" (https://web.archive.org/web/20191021113301/https://gist.github.com/prawnsalad/7b3f5929dadc81c39228e373fa0ca569 https://web.archive.org/web/20191021113301/https://gist.gith...), prompting some staffers to resigns: linuxdaemon (https://gist.github.com/linuxdaemon/9555cc4c2c73eefc4dfec00da3861aa8 https://gist.github.com/linuxdaemon/9555cc4c2c73eefc4dfec00d...), iownall555 (https://gist.github.com/iownall555/69543286e9ed31ef70362429d23aa362 https://gist.github.com/iownall555/69543286e9ed31ef70362429d...), A_Dragon (https://gist.github.com/A-UNDERSCORE-D/66dcf27eaf14ecc0b07a642c34811269 https://gist.github.com/A-UNDERSCORE-D/66dcf27eaf14ecc0b07a6...). It is also worth noting that during theses years, it has been asked to the staff to give server access to unknown people at random times, and that rdv had been expelled from the network due to very questionable behavior, and noeatnosleep has left the staff. Dates for theses events are unknown to me. Make your opinion, and any resemblance to other current events is fortuitous.