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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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Freenode now belongs to Andrew Lee, and I'm leaving for a new network (fuchsnet.ch)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Even Vice has an article about what's going on. I was not aware that Lee is the Crown Prince of Korea. Or that he is behind shells.com, along with Mark Karpeles. I had been thinking about setting up an account there, but not so sure, now.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-korea-crown-prince-takeover

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Yeah and dodgy stuff like PIA and Mt.Gox. I would be much less worried about this if it was someone else.