Agreed. The main role of the network, as with any service provider, is being transparent to the functioning of the communities that use that service. Disturbanc

Agreed. The main role of the network, as with any service provider, is being transparent to the functioning of the communities that use that service. Disturbances in the service's functioning are the main things that break that transparency, and calling the hurricane that turned Freenode into Leenode a "disturbance" is greatly understating the impact that it had.