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This is either deliberate FUD or an accidental misconstruing of what they said. I'm not a freenode staffer, but I was in the channel while this discussion was ongoing. What they did say was that: 1) the WEBIRC protocol, which mibbit pushes heavily, is fundamentally not trustable unless you know exactly what code is running 2) there are additional incentives for a commercial enterprise to potentially abuse any level o…
Networks differ massively on these points. EFNet for example was more than happy to setup WEBIRC. So are hundreds of others. For Mibbit, it's the cleanest, least hassle solution. It needs no management. The networks own security handles everything. That is why it's recommended. I'm really skeptical that abusing trust would be a good thing to do - if trust has been broken, networks can just ban you easily. #3 I disagr…
Of course. My intent with that post was not to get into a discussion about why Freenode was right or wrong in making their decision - like I said, I'm not a staffer, and I have no access to the information they presumably are making their decisions on.
My intent with that post was to point out that Freenode's reasons were significantly more nuanced than you claimed in your parent post, and to address your response to one of them using arguments that they, again, outlined while you were in the channel.