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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by jwildeboer on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:10AM (#18724978)
OP here. I would partly agree. But at the time I posted the link, I only had examples from Iranian people that are living in other countries using Slack and getting banned. Now that I have heard more stories about people from Syria and even one US person, I wouldn't post it again with that description.

I'll leave it to the mods to change the description accordingly, if they feel inclined to do so.

UPDATE: The mods have changed the description to "Is Slack shutting down accounts of those ethnically associated with Iran?"

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by mirimir on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:21AM (#18725054)
I meant no criticism. I'm just trying to understand what they're doing. And damn, just the realization that they have access logs going back years is mind-boggling. If they didn't have the logs, they'd arguably be better off.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by user5994461 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:59AM (#18725990)
It's possible that they don't store access logs, but just keep the login history with time and location.

It's a lot less data and it's very useful to help with some customer issues, or legal matters like this.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by natch on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:50AM (#18725325)
Ethnicity != citizenship != national origin. The updated title is still screaming drama needlessly.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by mirimir on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:07AM (#18725469)
Truly, the drama level isn't overly high.

But the focus ought to be on banning based on access logs from years ago. With potentially unreliable geolocation. And IPv4 addresses that may have been announced from many different autonomous systems, over the years.

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