I have to admit I was confused by the statement Ian made. Joke or not, it wasn't funny. but this is as far as I will go on the matter as I don't wish to get involved in the freenet dispute. ----- Original Message ----- From: Russell Glenn To: devl@freenetproject.org Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2023 3:33 PM Subject: Racist statement of Ian Clarke on this list
Mr. Ian Clarke, when discussing your acquisition of a secondary domain, "freenet.org", for your highly controversial unilateral decision to rewrite the Freenet Project which has always been hosted on "freenetproject.org", you said the following: > Yeah, all of the provocatively racist domain names were taken anyway. Notice that this is a VERBATIM quote, and the email of yours did not contain ANY other content, nothing to reduce the gravity of this statement; the gravity of which cannot be reduced anyway. Proof: https://www.mail-archive.com/devl@freenetproject.org/msg55336.html As a black person, but not only as such, I inform you that racism is NOT tolerable by any means whatsoever on this planet and will NEVER be. And before you attempt to dismiss this as a joke: Millions of people died due to racism. You, especially as a white person, are not entitled to joke about that. Nobody is. And this piles onto the provable falsehoods and other insults you have produced on this list in the previous days. Therefore, it is my duty to join the ranks of people who request you to: * immediately step down as leader of the Freenet Project and * leave its board and * transfer ownership of the domains to the Freenet developer team and * transfer ownership of all other related accounts and * cease to use the name "Freenet" for any of your new projects. Racists, or those who joke about racism, do not belong into positions where power is wielded. As you have failed to prove that the board of the project is still constructed of active members of the community, and not of those who have been inactive for decades as Mr. Daigniere stated, I join those who request leadership is transferred to the leading developer. To my knowledge, this is Mr. Babenhauserheide. Should he not accept the position, I would vouch for the previous lead developer Mr. Dougherty, or anyone of the choice of the two. Finally, I urgently implore anyone who reads this email to state their support. We must stand united against racism. - Russell Glenn
