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by zatertip 1835 days ago
Events up until May 24th:

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...

After that, at every turn when Andrew Lee has been given the choice between doing the right thing and acting like a comic book villain, he has chosen the latter.

Removed any restraint on staff, tried to bribe FOSSHOST to be the face of his operations, hired known trolls and right-wing extremists as staff.

More materially, he has killed or driven away ##linux, #fsf, #gnu, #archlinux, #gentoo, #fedora, #ubuntu, #wikipedia and OVER 700 MORE PROJECTS:

https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus

And he is not done yet. He has announced that soon he will switch the whole network over to a new irc daemon, which he will fail at because he doesn't know how and the people who do won't touch him with a 7-foot pole:

https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/nyp855/new_freenode_ma...

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All of this really puts Lee's evangelizing of Private Internet Access into a new light, doesn't it?
Lee ... founded popular VPN company Private Internet Access, LTMI, which last year sold to an Israeli cybersecurity firm for $95.5 million.

IMHO, at this point you need to seriously consider the possibility that everything he's touched, including Freenode, could be compromised in some way, if not already a literal "honeypot"...

Off-topic: I love his new house: https://www.insider.com/south-korean-royals-california-mansi...

Andrew Lee sold Private Internet Access in 2019 and has nothing to do with them anymore. Likewise, PIA has nothing to do with Freenode.