Slack will BAN to the account of the user who visited the economic sanctioned country

by Scott Webb

" Slack " of the team communication tool is reported to BAN the account of the user who visited the country that the US is subject to economic sanctions.

Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46642760

This was made clear by the user's report that the account was actually BANed.

One of the users reporting that the account was BANed from Slack is @ a _ h _ a . From Slack, the account is BANed without prior notice, "Slack prohibits use from the region such as Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the U.S. economic sanctioned countries, Crimea of Ukraine. He said that because your team detected that they are affected by these areas, I immediately suspended my account. "I received the message after the account was frozen. However, @ a_h_a says, "I am a Canadian doctoral student, there is no Iranian team mate! Does Slack close ethnically the accounts of people related to Iran? I am tweeting from where is the information on ethnicity? "And I guess that the account was frozen because I am an Iranian

Slack closed my account today!

I'm a PhD student in Canada with no teammates from Iran!

Is Slack shutting down accounts of those ethnically associated with Iran ?!

And what's their source of info on my ethnicity? # Slack #UsSanctions pic.twitter.com/mY8Ltczq8v

- Amir (@ a_h_a) December 19, 2018

In addition, Hacker News says, "My wife's Slack account suddenly froze, my wife made a Slack account while traveling to Cuba a couple of years ago, and she is using Slack's frequently used organization He is a co-founder and has been unable to access work data and messages for the past few years. "There seems to be some people who are BAN accounted just by saying that they have visited economic sanctioned countries in the past.

She created the account while tra ... ... | Hacker News

Slack says "It may have detected an account on the platform with an IP address derived from the specified target country and the owner of the workspace", and it is said that "wrong account BAN" is "review" I will.