[ajross]

To be fair, no one ever went after Freenode over a desire to ban Iranians in Canada.

What you're saying seems to be along the lines of "It's a dumb law, don't blame slack." But to be fair, (heh) it's not like this mess was completely unforseen. There are censored/censorable forums and there are open ones. A lot of people knew the difference and warned us about this kind of thing.

[robkop]

You really can't compare freenode to slack, their scales are so vastly different that you're practically making a strawman.

[ajross]

That's... a fine response to a feature flame war. Fine fine, slack is better. IRC just doesn't compare. All of us using it are dinosaurs who should be forgotten. I'll grant all that stuff.

But real people are having their accounts banned simply because they've been to Iran (Or more worryingly, simply because they're Iranian; are european tourists getting banned? Seems like it's all expats in the article...)

You can't compare serious issues of censorship to platform flame wars. The moral scales are so vastly different that you're practically doing political censorship.