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Without spending a lot of time on this, I don't believe that Slack just used ethnicity to ban this account. Could the OP have been using VPNs or something that
by taude 8y ago
Without spending a lot of time on this, I don't believe that Slack just used ethnicity to ban this account. Could the OP have been using VPNs or something that led Slack to believe his IPs were coming from IRAN? I don't see Slack doing anything differently, and all this "outrage" seems to be unfounded at this point.
Edit: one thought, hopefully they can open a new Slack account with IPs originating in Canada and Slack can copy/move/reinstate the account.
- taude 8y agoNot sure why the downvotes? It's pretty obvious there's a lot of jumping to conclusions in the first 10 comments (that's all I read) on that Twitter thread, basically implying that Slack is using ethnicity to close the account and not something more technical like an IP address that was tied to Iran at one point in time. It seems from reading other comments that this Slack team was created when he was in Iran from an Iranian IP. And they used originating IP when the team was created and not access to determine. We can debate the proper technical solution to base the rule when you apply it across your SaaS-based application at world-scale, but implying that Slack did this on race is pretty absurd at this point.