Sanctions are a very blunt instrument; sanctions will always harm people we like, indeed often the very people we want to help with the sanctions. You can disa

Sanctions are a very blunt instrument; sanctions will always harm people we like, indeed often the very people we want to help with the sanctions. You can disagree with the idea of sanctions based upon this, but this is how sanctions work. Companies need to comply with sanctions and the repercussions of not complying can be severe. I'm not sure WHY Slack chose this method to respond to the sanctions, nor why they've chosen to do this at time. Slack may have received a shoulder tap from a US agency that forced their hand or their legal department got cold feet. Until we know for sure, this seems like a overly cautious approach but not some kind of nefarious scheme.