Patrick,
Today lilo (the FreeNode network owner) has decided to make one step away in a direction opposite of freedom, and banned all Tor users from the FreeNode network.
The actual PDPC policy on access to Freenode via the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Tor project is here:
http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#tor
To summarize, freenode supports the Tor project and works closely with its developers. Any anonymizing service can be abused, and we have to deal on a daily basis with the results of such abuse. Freenode provides Tor users with randomly-generated, per-session, easily-identifiable hostname cloaks and thus gives each channel the option of either allowing access to Tor users or denying it.
We do occasionally block access from Tor exit nodes or remove Tor users from
the network, in the course of trying to deal with attacks on channels. We're trying to cut down. ;) For example, this morning we repeatedly killed
out a small clonebot net that was causing problems on unattended channels. We added the capability of specifically turning off new Tor connections
during periods when there's no other way to prevent abuse. In the process of
resolving bugs in that new network feature, we killed out several legitimate
Tor users by mistake. Nevertheless, we're committed to keeping freenode
available to Tor users as continuously as it is possible to do so.
Patrick, I'm sorry you felt the need to spam multiple community mailing lists with this distorted interpretation of freenode policy. I'm willing to assume that you are simply ignorant of network policy, rather than advancing some malicious agenda.
I'm posting this single reply in LKML only, to try to avoid adding to off-topic discussion in the mailing lists Patrick has posted his comments in; anyone who feels the need can quote this email in some other forum.
Regards,
Robert Levin Head of Staff, freenode Executive Director, PDPC ---- Peer-Directed Projects Center 10100 Main Street #31 /Houston, Texas 77025-5237 USA Ph. +1.832.4768694
PDPC is a Texas nonprofit corporation and an IRS 501(c)(03) charitable and educational organization, chartered in 2002 to provide resources to peer-directed projects, including those of the Free and Open Source Software communities. PDPC runs the freenode interactive network.
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