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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by rvense on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:30AM (#18725132)
Maybe Slack just proved that you actually don't have to pick between malice and incompetence.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by eponeponepon on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:00AM (#18725408)
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by beobab on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:17AM (#18725546)
My dad used to say: "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained with stupidity", but I love yours too.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by wastedhours on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:40AM (#18725794)
Otherwise known has "Hanlon's Razor" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by starbeast on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:10AM (#18726102)
Which is great for politeness, but largely rubbish for working out what people might be up to, given that people not only regularly disguise malice as stupidity, but in some cases find it highly entertaining. Hence the existence of - https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by CalChris on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:50AM (#18725899)
This is a play on Arthur C Clarke:

  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by toufiqbarhamov on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:45PM (#18728416)
“But don’t dismiss stupidity.” Is the ending of the better variation of that quote I think.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by tigershark on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:13AM (#18725514)
I love you.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by walterbell on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:57AM (#18725387)
Malcompetence?
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