Again, the narrative one wishes to hear, but, to be clear: [0] No different from Microsoft taking control of a repository that many relied upon. [1] There was

Again, the narrative one wishes to hear, but, to be clear: [0] No different from Microsoft taking control of a repository that many relied upon. [1] There was an active spam attack going on. [x1] [2] IRC cloud deceptively labeled freenode a malicious network. Seemed fair to ban them since they were collecting rent from users that were using the network. Probably better than a libel lawsuit that we were recommended to file. [3] freenode isn't subject to GDPR. Jurisdiction is an interesting topic given the scope of this thread by the way! To be clear, I don't appreciate the perpetuation of the false narrative -- once it started to become death threats, the safety of my family elevated this to a much higher level of concern and obviously things are being investigated. As has been the same position of mine from the beginning, I continue to protect freenode and have always seeked [x2] to give ownership and control of it to the community [x3]. [x1] https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e4075d2d48#gistcomment-3793646 https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e... [x2] https://old.freenode.net/static/files/on-freenode.pdf https://old.freenode.net/static/files/on-freenode.pdf [x3] https://freenode.net/n/freenode/80/freenode-belongs-to-you https://freenode.net/n/freenode/80/freenode-belongs-to-you