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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.
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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...
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