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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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