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This is yet another good reason to prefer decentralized networks. When Slack or Facebook or whomever agrees to block someone there is no resolution other than appealing to a company with a closed decision making process, something I don't think any of us really want.
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Saying "they should have acted differently to begin with" isn't a valid criticism of an apology, or it would apply to all apologies.
“If you were sorry you wouldn’t have done it to begin with” has also come up on several occasions in my personal life. Haven’t figured out how best to respond to that one.
This is yet another good reason to prefer decentralized networks. When Slack or Facebook or whomever agrees to block someone there is no resolution other than appealing to a company with a closed decision making process, something I don't think any of us really want.
Yep. Going to go ahead and throw Matrix/Riot out there as a great alternative.
I'm curious whether IP blocking is actually enough to comply with the spirit of a trade embargo. Surely, the point of "not trading with Iran" is to avoid, through one's economic activity, enriching the citizens or corporations of Iran; and has nothing to do with preventing access to people who just happen to currently be within the geographic boundaries of Iran. (So: email blocking by detection of Iranian-ISP mail ho…
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They're explicitly saying that they don't do that and that they don't have that information. But they did do it, so what does that mean...
Did they? Or did they ban people associated with specific IPs?
I'm a big fan and critic of apologies. This one is pretty good. They admit the mistake was theirs and they take responsibility for it. They say sorry. They explain what they're going to do to fix the situation. They say they're going to learn from this and not have similar mistakes in the future. Pretty solid. The only thing that is missing, in my view, is personalization. Tell me who you are, speaking for the organi…
It's okay to mess up if you quickly correct the issue or at least quickly recognize it and try to correct it. The problems arise when incidents are buried or ignored. Late apologies are not apologies at all.
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Expats comprise less than 1% of the global population, and I doubt the number of international tourists at any given time pushes that percentage much higher. Use a VPN I guess, or better yet ditch Slack.
Nonsense. Much of Silicon Valley consists of foreigners, yet they didn’t block those users — a significant part of their user base ; thus the theory of ethnic or nationality blocking makes zero logical sense.
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Matrix is the protocol, Riot is a Slack-like implementation of the protocol: https://riot.im/ You can use the default (free) Matrix homeserver with Riot and you'll basically have a free chat system without any setup (besides installing the client). I've been using Riot for a while now, and while Slack does seem a bit more polished, having client-side encryption for all my messages gives Riot the upper hand: I don't w…
Modular.im is their hosted product. Much cheaper than slack as well.
Like often happens in warfare, collateral damage of other innocent people happened.
There wasn't even a requirement that they had to do it in such a cruel way.
Anyone still working there... fuck you.
> We will soon begin blocking access to our service from IP addresses associated with an embargoed country. Users who travel to a sanctioned country may not be able to access Slack while they remain in that country. Is Slack legally required to do this? As long as they aren't knowingly accepting payment from these countries, shouldn't they be in the clear? How are other tech companies dealing with this? Does Google b…
Phone calls, SMS, and the like work fine enough to embargoed countries (although North Korea doesn't allow that, except to a very limited set of phone numbers, mostly consolates), and that likely involves payments between phone companies in the embargoed countries and in the US.
I'm aware that Softlayer (IBM) blocks traffic to embargoed countries by default, but has a process to allow traffic, given documentation of exemption.