Saudi Arabia is a large investor in Slack. Probably doesn't mean much here, but you never know.
Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
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Re: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
#12In this modern age it seems it's not safe to list anything which might come back to haunt you, including ethnicity.
Face recognition will solve that for you.
Good luck guessing ethnicity for Iran. There will be many who look less middle-eastern than your average "Californian with a tan". You'd have the same problem with most near-east or Mediterranean countries. Being at the crossroads for a few millennia will do that to a place.
Re: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
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So if you once log in during a holiday trip to iran your account gets blocked
Iran's been on my list of "wanna go" destinations for a while (Food and architecture mainly). Looks like I'd have to choose between that and having any connection with a US based company. Great.
I know it's inconvenient, but you could still work around this by using a burner phone during your trip, no?
Re: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
#14If you work for an American company, get a bug report from a user you know to be in Iran against an open source project you work on during company time and fix it as a result, can the company be considered to be engaging in commerce with Iran?
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
So if you once log in during a holiday trip to iran your account gets blocked
Iran's been on my list of "wanna go" destinations for a while (Food and architecture mainly). Looks like I'd have to choose between that and having any connection with a US based company. Great.
Or just not log into slack when on holiday?
Re: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
So if you once log in during a holiday trip to iran your account gets blocked
Iran's been on my list of "wanna go" destinations for a while (Food and architecture mainly). Looks like I'd have to choose between that and having any connection with a US based company. Great.
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 met 200+ people that have been to Iran)
Re: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
#17A couple of our employees from Syria also got blocked today. They were using Slack from Syria though. EDIT: I don't understand why they ban/block the account rather than "simply" block access from IPs from the country. This seems really strange and overreaching.
> They were using Slack from Syria though.
This doesn't excuse anything. People in Syria are people too.
This is similar to how people were calling for websites to block access to Europe over the copyright thing. The internet is a place where you don't even need to have a nationality. It is a place where we can all exist as pure thoughts. Why are we letting politics fuck it up?
Re: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
#18If they are just deleting accounts where someone logged in from a treasury-barred country’s IP, I wonder what happens if you BGP hijack a small amount of that address space, somehow get admins or high profile users to connect via this (run WiFi? Some kind of proxy?), and then observe the chaos.
Re: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Iran's been on my list of "wanna go" destinations for a while (Food and architecture mainly). Looks like I'd have to choose between that and having any connection with a US based company. Great.
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?
Re: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
#20Earlier 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?
Iran is one of the most heavy users of social accounts to influence the world, amongst Russia and China.