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No, they blocked users based on location. I'm currently located in California, and this has nothing to do with my nationality.
by p1esk 8y ago
No, they blocked users based on location. I'm currently located in California, and this has nothing to do with my nationality.
- aervaertaera 8y agoExpats comprise less than 1% of the global population, and I doubt the number of international tourists at any given time pushes that percentage much higher. Use a VPN I guess, or better yet ditch Slack.
- dang 8y agoLikely a much higher percentage of Slack users though.
- briandear 8y agoNonsense. Much of Silicon Valley consists of foreigners, yet they didn’t block those users — a significant part of their user base ; thus the theory of ethnic or nationality blocking makes zero logical sense.
- fogetti 8y agoNo. It's the exact opposite. The fact that Californian IP-s were not targeted makes it pretty clear that US nationals were not targeted. While other nationals were. And it also proves that Slack engineers are dumb as f@ck.
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