[aaomidi]

And what about other users who aren't breaking the law? Like me, who has been living in the US since 2011?

These bans with no appeal processes are absolutely stupid. See my submissions for more context, but its helluva lot more people than a single incident. They seem to be banning anyone who sounds Iranian.

[Crosseye_Jack]

Op’s Post talks about how they are inside Iran. So in this case I still say it’s a valid account termination.

If you are not accessing the service from Iran and you get dinged, contact support, supply supporting evidence and they will restore the account.

This isn’t Slack picking on Iranians, this is “if slack don’t do this, they can get into a whole help of trouble”. I’m sure some people are going to get dinged by mistake but I honestly doubt they are banning people because of how their name sounds.

[aaomidi]

I've never even used Slack in Iran and my name sounds Iranian. Wonder how they decided I'm using it from Iran then.

[Crosseye_Jack]

Was your user account closed or the workplace account closed?

If it was the workplace account that was closed the. It could be because you had users connecting to it from inside Iran and not yourself personally.

It if you got booted from a workplace because they though you were in Iran I would say contact them and ask they why they believe so, that you are not in Iran and your ip addresses that access to the service back you up.

Think of the pubic shitshow it would cause if a major yech company were banning U.S. citizens/residents because of their race/nationality. Simply because of the optics and legal repercussions behind such an epic fuck up if it ever came to light I doubt slack have staff going though account names looking for Iranian sounding names to ban off the platform and are using other metrics to determine where the user account or workplace account is actually based.

[Crosseye_Jack]

Replying again because I can not edit my orig post.

It seem that they have been banning based off IP address. They allow appeals via email.

Copy of a Tweet from Slack. > Hi. Our systems may have detected an account on our platform with an IP address originating from a designated embargoed country. Please send a note to [e-mail] so we can investigate further.