Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

Post by mirimir » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:37 PM UTC

adminu wrote: post #226

jstanley wrote: post #188

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I don't think this is the future of the web. This sort of thing is a temporary blip before everybody figures out decentralised solutions for everything. Decentralisation is clearly the end game as long as politics causes problems like this. A decentralised solution will continue to "just work", while centralised solutions continue to boot people off. It's pretty obvious which one is going to win.

Until taking part in a decentralized system is a crime by itself due to potentially illegal content and your possession and distribution of that content. The distributed system does not stop to work then, but the user might risk punishment for using it, which might be even worse than not being able to use it.

Post by natch » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:37 PM UTC

Post by jstanley » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:38 PM UTC

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #159

robteix wrote: post #105

Aside from the obvious wrong of blocking people based on their origin, what's up with these companies closing accounts with no warning and no recourse? I know they're private companies and they _can_ do it, but just because you can doesn't mean you should. Why not give the user even a few days notice so they can communicate with support to try and clear things up? Taking the OP's story at face value, Slack should eas…

> I know they're private companies and they _can_ do it, but just because you can doesn't mean you should. Actually, if you look at the image, Slack is beholden to US law, export regulations and economic sanctions - companies doing business with countries they shouldn't are in big trouble. See also: Huawei, who despite sanctions continued to do business with Iran, which caused the US to give them a huge fine. I don't…

Post by blindwatchmaker » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:38 PM UTC

hnauz wrote: post #249

blindwatchmaker wrote: post #228

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Yeah imagine bitching because you lost a primary communication tool and a bunch of your saved data because of your ethnicity.

That's not what happened at all, that's why it's hard to take him seriously. He makes it look like Slack went out of their way to look at all of their users and check of what race they are to ban those who are Iranians, when they just made a geoip check.

Post by ryanmercer » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:39 PM UTC

yholio wrote: post #126

Welcome to the brave new world of the "cloud": you data, business, money, most intimate secrets and livelihood is at the whims of a foreign corporation that will stop at nothing if it means 2 cents more on their bottom line, or gets them on the good side of a government entity. You have no rights, you have no intrinsic human valuu and you have no means to fight for yourself.