[alangpierce]

For context, one of the original reports of this was from (I believe) an Iranian-American with US Citizenship living in the US:

https://twitter.com/aaomidi/status/1075621119028314112

You might read that and infer that Slack is somehow tracking the national origin, ethnicity, or race of all of its users, which would be much fishier behavior than IP-based blocking. They're explicitly saying that they don't do that and that they don't have that information.

[gaius]

They're explicitly saying that they don't do that and that they don't have that information.

But they did do it, so what does that mean...

[briandear]

Did they? Or did they ban people associated with specific IPs?

[vageli]

Are the sanctions against doing business with Iran nationals or anyone with an Iran IP address? I would imagine the sanctions are in place to prevent trade with Iranian nationals.