Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by simonsaidit on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:23PM (#18728146)

I’ve seen exactly those reasons by those people in those size companies to explain why slack could not be allowed.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by PascLeRasc on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:56PM (#18728534)

I've seen that too, but it's usually the same people who just reject anything hosted somewhere else with statements like "we're not doing airquotes The Cloud" and think all tech companies are conspiring against us.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by krageon on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:17AM (#18732053)

No, it's because all of the big chat applications are hosted in the US and this is a completely unacceptable country to have any data in.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by winrid on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:31PM (#18742550)

This is true. If you are in the EU you might not even legally be able to use a US hosted solution depending on what data you are sending over the chat...

[ Parent | on HN ]