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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by walterbell on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:49AM (#18725316)
Maybe it's time for Congress to help companies differentiate between:

(a) the objectives of laws prohibiting large commercial flows to sanctioned countries and

(b) the objectives of laws encouraging many tiny information exchanges on the internet, taking place outside of sanctioned countries

Is it worth burning down Internet commerce in the hope of catching a few individuals? Did Congress intend to create a Do-Not-Speak list, or one such list for every Internet company? Should Internet UGC platforms now relocate outside the USA, when Congress is also encouraging companies to repatriate assets to the USA?

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by reaperducer on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:10PM (#18727374)
Is it worth burning down Internet commerce in the hope of catching a few individuals?

What's happening here isn't an attempt to catch a few individuals. The goal is to put pressure on the entire government of Iran. This is done by making doing business hard for large businesses, as well as individuals, so that pressure to change is put on the Iranian government from above (businesses) and below (the people).

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