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Expand Up @@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ Channel ownership
Channels on freenode fall into one of two categories. Primary channels, which
begin with a single # character, are reserved for on-topic projects. If you’d
like to take over one of these channels, then you’ll need to be associated in
some way with the project in question. Topical, or ‘about’ channels, begin with
some way with the project in question. For abandoned project channels that
have moved or are no longer available to the public, you may request the
ownership of the channel be transferred to you. Please make said requests in
the #freenode IRC channel. Topical, or ‘about’ channels, begin with
two # characters, and these are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to
the first person who registers it with ChanServ. As with nicknames, however, we
reserve the right to remove or alter registrations where we believe they have
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privilege, not a right, and may be withdrawn where we believe that this has not
been the case.

Unlawful activities and related support activities are considered off-topic, as are
inappropriate advertising, heavy media file trading, proprietary game software modding,
warez, porn and various forms of antisocial behaviour, including (but not limited to)
political, racial, ethnic, religious or gender-related invective.
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Glad to know I can now use political, racial, ethnic, religious or gender-related invective on freenode, this is a move in the right direction!

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Assuming you're being sarcastic, why shouldn't people be allowed to talk about those things? Free speech is important. The answer to undesirable speech is more speech, not suppression.

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." Justice Louis Brandeis in Whitney v. California

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That is indeed the view generally taken by those with a loud voice, who are not under constant threat.

Off topic channels are required to act in good faith in accordance to the freenode
community as a whole. Unlawful activities and related support activities are considered
off-topic, as are inappropriate advertising such as unused channels for the purpose of
polluting the channel list results, transmission of illicit content such as warez or
illegal content, spam, or squatting a namespace preventing others from utilizing it.

In accordance with UK law freenode has no tolerance for any activity that could be construed
as:
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