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Re:Freenode IRC resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s cr... by jart on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:23PM (#27271997)
Here's the statement from the Andrew Lee himself: https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e... according to hackaday https://hackaday.com/2021/05/20/freenode-debacle-prompts-sta... I have no idea who this tomaw person is and why they all hate Lee so much, or why they accuse him of bribery when he offers to pay his volunteers. I mean if you're just some scrappy online hacker and the crown fucking prince of a wealthy country reaches out to you directly and says he needs your support: you say yes!
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Re:Freenode IRC resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s cr... by aahortwwy on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:00AM (#27272459)
> the crown fucking prince of a wealthy country

South Korea is a republic.

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Re:Freenode IRC resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s cr... by marcescence on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:19AM (#27272556)
He is quite literally the crown prince of the Yi dynasty, the latest imperial lineage of Korea [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lee_(entrepreneur)

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Re:Freenode IRC resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s cr... by aahortwwy on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:21AM (#27272570)
I know who he is.

Neither the Republic of Korea or the DPRK have a monarchy at this moment in history.

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Re:Freenode IRC resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s cr... by jart on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:36AM (#27272636)
South Korea is part of America's club. Their prince was raised in Indiana as an American. There appears to be folks out there who view Korea as his birthright. Real magnanimous of us that we won't even let him run an IRC network he lawfully purchased. Talk about haan. As far as I can tell, he was just trying to help, and make IRC be more competitive with Slack.
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Re:Freenode IRC resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s cr... by wearywanderer on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:55PM (#27272158)
Not everybody is so easily impressed by the bullshit titles claimed by pretenders.
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