Freenode removes hate speech rule
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Freenode removes hate speech rule
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Re: Freenode removes hate speech rule
#2##nazis, ##transphobia, and ##homophobia now registered.
Who feels like being satirical today?
Re: Freenode removes hate speech rule
#3##nazis, ##transphobia, and ##homophobia now registered. Who feels like being satirical today?
Honestly, that's petty.
Re: Freenode removes hate speech rule
#4There’s been a lot of things going on with Freenode lately.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-...
Re: Freenode removes hate speech rule
#5Title is editorializing. Freenode has removed speech restrictions on a number of subjects.
Re: Freenode removes hate speech rule
#6Title is editorializing. Freenode has removed speech restrictions on a number of subjects.
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Re: Freenode removes hate speech rule
#7If you click down on the file to see what's left in underneath, it continues with loads of duplicate rules which do the same thing. This feels like tidying up to me, as a complete outsider.
Re: Freenode removes hate speech rule
#8There’s been a lot of things going on with Freenode lately. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-...
> In 2017, the then head of staff at Freenode, Christel Dahlskjaer, incorporated it as Freenode Ltd and sold it to Andrew Lee. the incorporation and sale was done just to sponsor a conference.
What a crazy turn of events for such an old project. Thanks for the link.
Re: Freenode removes hate speech rule
#9I wish this submission had been to a blog post analyzing the changes in the greater context of the diff. That would have made an excellent post.
Re: Freenode removes hate speech rule
#10Far more immediately impactful change is this:
> For abandoned project channels that have moved or are no longer available to the public, you may request the ownership of the channel be transferred to you.
This effectively legitimizes the sort of takeovers that were discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27246755