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Business Communication Service Slack, in Compliance With US Regulations, Broadens Ban on Users in Sanctioned Nations (venturebeat.com) 43

Earlier this year, business communication service Slack began to block users in Syria, Iran, and select other embargoed countries to comply with U.S. regulations. This week, the company has broadened the scope of the ban by blocking some users if they have moved from or visited any of the sanctioned nations in recent years. From a report: The company began to face a backlash early today after several users complained that their Slack accounts had been deactivated and that they never received a formal warning from the company. Part of the problem, as Sarah Shugars, a PhD candidate at Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, pointed out, is that some users have been blocked even if they have been living in the United States for a number of years.
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Business Communication Service Slack, in Compliance With US Regulations, Broadens Ban on Users in Sanctioned Nations

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  • Oh Crap (Score:4, Funny)

    by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:18PM (#57838128)

    Slack began to block users in Syria, Iran, and select other embargoed countries

    I hadn't really been worried about terrorism before, but now that Slack is no longer wasting the time of a whole lot of people in these countries I am deeply concerned.

  • now if banks would actually do the same thing, we'd have something going on.

    Maybe some programmers in the affected countries could actually be happier and less likely to become terrorists because of this. /s

  • When I came across Rocket Chat, my first thought was, "I wish this was available before we went to Slack." Cause now that we're on Slack, it's one of those, "Don't fix what ain't broke" problems.

    Looks like Slack took it upon themselves to fix that.

    https://rocket.chat/ [rocket.chat]

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