Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

Post by _ak » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 1:04 PM UTC

jstanley wrote: post #40

mimi89999 wrote: post #34

I believe that the only party that suffers from those sanctions are actually the populations living in those dictatorships who don't have a say about who is their leader. Who does actually benefit from them and who do they really harm?

There are other parties that suffer from the sanctions. For example, the guy in the Tweet, who doesn't even live in Iran and is merely ethnically Iranian. Not to mention anyone in the US (or, just ethnically North American?) who takes the ethical stance of ignoring the sanction and gets punished for it.

Post by icebraining » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 1:06 PM UTC

duiker101 wrote: post #28

duxup wrote: post #21

"originating from" is an interesting phrase as far as the internet goes and people's mobility. Is that when the account was first used? Majority of use related to IP? Something to do with the email address?

I would probably guess it's geolocation at time of registration.

Post by paraditedc » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 1:07 PM UTC

kkarakk wrote: post #47

robotbikes wrote: post #3

Wow. This seems rather unprecedented and unnecessary, based upon the lack of action in this regard by other companies I don't know why Slack would do this. If for instance this kind of arbitrary action took place on GitHub I could see it having a detrimental impact to free software projects. This is another good reason to choose Zulipchat and other self-hostable platforms instead of proprietary SaaS solutions.

>This is another good reason to choose Zulipchat and other self-hostable platforms instead of proprietary SaaS solutions until someone targets your host and gets it shut down.

Post by ryanlol » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 1:08 PM UTC

underyx wrote: post #19

grecy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone I have ever met that has been to Iran absolutely raves about it. I've never met a single person that didn't extend their stay, and doesn't rate it as hands down the best country they have ever been to. It's very, very high on my list. But if you have an American or British passport you currently can't go without an escort. (I'm an Overlander, I drove AK-Argentina and am now driving right around Africa. I've…

This sounds a bit interesting, extending trips doesn't sound like a common occurrence, but you say you met 200+ people that did just that?

Post by laumars » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 1:09 PM UTC

kkarakk wrote: post #47

robotbikes wrote: post #3

Wow. This seems rather unprecedented and unnecessary, based upon the lack of action in this regard by other companies I don't know why Slack would do this. If for instance this kind of arbitrary action took place on GitHub I could see it having a detrimental impact to free software projects. This is another good reason to choose Zulipchat and other self-hostable platforms instead of proprietary SaaS solutions.

>This is another good reason to choose Zulipchat and other self-hostable platforms instead of proprietary SaaS solutions until someone targets your host and gets it shut down.