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Re:An Apology and an Update by alangpierce on Friday December 21, 2018 @09:52PM (#18738629)
For context, one of the original reports of this was from (I believe) an Iranian-American with US Citizenship living in the US:

https://twitter.com/aaomidi/status/1075621119028314112

You might read that and infer that Slack is somehow tracking the national origin, ethnicity, or race of all of its users, which would be much fishier behavior than IP-based blocking. They're explicitly saying that they don't do that and that they don't have that information.

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Re:An Apology and an Update by gaius on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:48AM (#18739160)
They're explicitly saying that they don't do that and that they don't have that information.

But they did do it, so what does that mean...

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Re:An Apology and an Update by briandear on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:12AM (#18739236)
Did they? Or did they ban people associated with specific IPs?
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Re:An Apology and an Update by vageli on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:36AM (#18739313)
Are the sanctions against doing business with Iran nationals or anyone with an Iran IP address? I would imagine the sanctions are in place to prevent trade with Iranian nationals.
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