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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by bgarbiak on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:48AM (#18724820)
IANAL but cutting you off your everyday job and crucial documents (causing stress, money problems, hopefully not: unemployment) only because you happened to open an account in a random country seems like a reason good enough for a lawsuit. What to gain: compensation, and that damn' account.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by spacehome on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:14AM (#18725001)
You are not entitled to Slack's infrastructure, no matter how much you came to depend on it for your day-to-day life.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by corebit on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:22AM (#18725062)
Well that's not strictly true. Presumably there is a contract of some sort, and Slack must abide by it, entitling users to Slack's infrastructure to some degree.

It's not completely arbitrary. Plus there're notions of estoppel potentially at play.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by adventured on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:39AM (#18725226)
I'd pretty much guarantee their terms of service stipulate they can terminate an account at any time for any reason. It's how most Internet services operate. The only likely addition to that, is a monetary refund if warranted based on the account context.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by paulcole on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:37AM (#18725198)
Pretty sure the contract is going to be in Slack’s favor. They had all the leverage when somebody agreed to it.

https://slack.com/terms

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