+
+Unlawful activities and related support activities are considered off-topic, as are
+inappropriate advertissing, 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.
+
+In accordance with UK law freenode has no tolerance for any activity that could be construed
+as:
+
+* incitement to racial hatred
+* incitement to religious hatred
+
+or any other behaviour meant to deliberately put upon a person harassment, alarm or distress.
+We do NOT endorse or encourage discrimination on the grounds of race, religion gender or sexual preference and
+operate with a zero-tolerance policy for libel and defamation.
+
+While we believe in the concept of freedom of thought and freedom of expression, freenode does not
+operate on the basis of absolute freedom of speech, and we impose limitations, e.g. on "hate speech".
+
+We expect all members of the community to be respectful of one another and of the privacy of others,
+and we reserve the right to terminate anyone's access to our services at our discretion.
+
+
+Unlawful Activity
+=============
+freenode cannot condone or support behaviour which is clearly unlawful. While we do not have the resources
+to closely monitor the thousands of channels on the network, volunteers are required by policy to pass on credible
+information, provided by you as a user of the freenode prokect, about anay unlawful activities. This is true whether you
+are talking about your own activities or those of someone else. Please be aware that we have this responsibility.
+
+freenode and financial transactions
+=============
+
+We appreciate that end users may sometimes wish to reward a project or a project
+contributor after having had a positive support experience in a project channel
+and it is great when this results in a donation to the project in question or
+perhaps a micropayment to the contributor concerned or the purchase of an item
+from the contributor's wish list.
+
+Nevertheless, we would urge our users to carry out their own due diligence
+before entering into financial transactions of any kind and stress that any
+financial transactions entered into on the freenode network must be undertaken
+entirely at the user's risk and freenode accepts no liability for any losses
+incurred as the result of such transactions.