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Re:Kiwi IRC founder stops contributing to IRC after Freenode... by sampo on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:41PM (#27271016)
> I think the issue is that it's unclear what was actually sold to Lee (possibly just a domain name and a website)

Looks like Lee legally owns something. I am not exactly sure what it is? Something much less than the entire IRC network. Some kind of account to something. First Wesley had revoked Lee's access, and then returned it. Anyway, when Lee asked for this access to whatever it is that he owns, it was seen as an attempt to a hostile takeover.

"I was locked out of the account"

"Finally, tomaw voluntarily handed back all of the accesses"

https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/blob/main/content/news/2...

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Re:Kiwi IRC founder stops contributing to IRC after Freenode... by wut42 on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:59PM (#27272185)
Wesley didn't revoke Lee access. The domain drama was just a misunderstanding about a 2FA/config thing that happened months ago -- it is documented in the email that Lee's published from Wesley: https://web.archive.org/web/20210519213611/https://gist.gith...

(edit: Maybe that when all this drama started, Wesley held on giving access again.)

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