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Re:An Apology and an Update by azhenley on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:42PM (#18738954)
My Twitter is full of academics with students and collaborators from all over the world that are complaining that Slack just eliminated their ability for them to communicate over the service. I'm not sure how many of them were free or paid though.
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Re:An Apology and an Update by geofft on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:08AM (#18739032)
Being involuntarily prevented from using a service is rather the opposite of boycotting, I think. (In the sense that boycotts are a tool of applying economic pressure to convince someone to change their mind, and if you're being kicked off you aren't actually able to exert any pressure.)
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Re:An Apology and an Update by azhenley on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:15AM (#18739063)
It isn't those that got kicked off that are boycotting. It is those that had students or collaborators get kicked off, that are now refusing to use Slack.
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