Discrimination is now allowed on Freenode

Before:

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.

After:

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.

My comment:

Andrew edited the file in order to add "inappropriate advertising such as unused channels for the purpose of polluting the channel list results" as a way to stop the mass exodus. If a channel changed the topic to "We have moved to libera.chat" and stopped using the channel on Freenode, then Andrew would take over that channel.

But in doing the edit, he removed inadvertently[?] the part about "antisocial behaviour, including (but not limited to) political, racial, ethnic, religious or gender-related invective".

He can easily add back the part about antisocial behavior. However, the core of the change is to be able to takeover any channel that has moved elsewhere, and remove any hint that a channel is no longer unofficial.

I think HN ate the hash, but scroll to line 87.

The other half of the change is retroactively making policy rasengan's recent takeover of a channel, which did not follow the formerly published channel expiration policy.