As far as I can tell, what was done was to shut down any channel that mentioned libera in its topic, whether or not the channel had decided to actually move to libera, in the process banning anyone lurking in the channel from the # or the ## channels.

For the channel I was affected by, we hadn't decided whether or not to move. Indeed, the most recent conversation may itself have been on the freenode side. It's clear to me that there was absolutely no attempt made to determine whether or not the channel was "wildly unmoderated and closed." Indeed, I read the policy statement to find what clause we could have violated and couldn't find anything matched.

If you were truly sorry, and you truly wanted to apologize, what you should do is restore the affected channels back to their original state immediately, and without waiting for anyone from those channels to come and grovel to you for restoration. However, it may be too late for people to believe your sincerity at this point. You have burned away so much trust with so few actions that it may be impossible to ever recover it.

As I've put in other comments, we hadn't yet decided whether to move from freenode to libera yet. But your actions have made the decision for us.