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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by gsich on Sunday December 23, 2018 @03:39PM (#18748174)
No. I expect a certain competence when using a computer. If this level of competence is not enough to even install a piece of software and configure the most basic settings, then this person should not own a PC, yet use one.

It's amazing that when it comes to computers, it is somehow acceptable to be dumb. It's acceptable to not learn new stuff. It's acceptable to not read in order to understand stuff. As can be read in the comments here.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by jackvalentine on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:59PM (#18774045)
Do you want to be ‘right’, or actually have users?

The whole ethos of startups and Silicon Valley has been around finding a market for your product. If people don’t want to use it then you can’t blame anyone but yourself.

Feel free to chat with yourself using an ideologically pure system... it’ll be lonely though.

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