The new corporate owner of Freenode is Imperial Family Companies

https://imperialfamily.com/

by marcan_42 • 5 years ago

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nathanaldensr• 5 years ago

We are bringing power BACK TO THE PEOPLE

Strong claims require strong evidence.

skrebbel• 5 years ago

I think they mean BACK TO THE PEOPLE IN MY MANSION.

kwdc• 5 years ago

When was freenode's power taken from the people? Who are "the people" anyway? Who took away their power? What exactly was freenode's power anyway? Other than chat.

So many questions.

wearywanderer• 5 years ago

When somebody starts making sensational claims like "bringing power back to the people" it makes me think they are trying to distract me from something.

phs• 5 years ago

Where does it say freenode has changed hands at all?

Not here: https://freenode.net/project

Seemingly not here?: https://imperialfamily.com/

Merely linking to freenode.net under "technology" is less than convincing.

kroo• 5 years ago

looks like the freenode staff confirmed it here: https://twitter.com/freenodestaff/status/1395046345145307140

marcan_42• 5 years ago

Freenode changed hands in 2018 to London Trust Media; this is well documented. What has happened now is that they are now taking over the actual operations of the network.

It seems London Trust Media recently rebranded as Imperial Family Companies; londontrustmedia.com now redirects there.

ilaksh• 5 years ago

Actually, the influence of that company is old news.

Freenode people have now moved on with a new name. But the reason was that yes that company did have some control over that domain name apparently.

Go to the Freenode IRC (if it still exists) and talk to the people there.

Then go to the Libera.chat IRC and talk to those people.

You can confirm where the people are.

tingletech• 5 years ago

here is post about it https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461

dang• 5 years ago

Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207440.

aritmo• 5 years ago

Aristocracy theme for the company and then make weird claims toward democracy.

metreo• 5 years ago

this makes zero sense, why? is this a massive troll on freenode?

The new corporate owner of Freenode is Imperial Family Companies

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