Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by bad_user on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:30AM (#18725137)

This happened to our cofounder as well.

His Slack account was blocked today, with that same message.

The crazy thing is that he's Irish and living in the EU, with no actual ties with the countries being mentioned.

He does travel for business purposes outside of Europe, but again, not in the listed countries.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by natch on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:53AM (#18725351)

Ireland, Iran, common mixup. /s

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by ryanmercer on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:14AM (#18725529)

We have people confuse it in my office actually, new hires will just assume Ireland is 'IR' not 'IE' and enter stuff into the system as country of origin 'IR' which throws off all sorts of red flags in our system, similarly when they see 'KR' as country of origin they freak out thinking it's North Korea not South Korea.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by mdjasper on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:21AM (#18725598)

    if account.countries.include(/ir.*an/)
        account.delete()

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