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As bad as it may sound, but from what I can read in the tweets, he did violate the sanctions by using slack while being in iran.

Well, that is called breaking the law and I fully understand why slack terminated his account when he broke the law and violated their terms of service.

For example, other services or tools (like cisco anyconnect) clearly state, that you are not allowed to use them when in embargoed contries.

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He lives and works in Canada. I cannot see how this is violating canadian laws.

It sounds like he accessed Slack from an Iranian IP at some point in the past. Though I’m not sure that’s actually breaking the law.

Maybe the issue is that slack is an American entity subject to U.S. law, regardless of where the organization or employee is based.

I’m not sure that’s how export controls work. If I ship a weapon to Iran, I’m the guilty one, not the recipient.

If Slack allows connections from embargoed nations, that’s on them, not the individuals who might happen to connect from an embargoed nation. Slack is responsible for their own export, and if a user accesses Slack from an embargoed nation, it indicates that Slack is enforcing the embargo improperly. More importantly, blocking that user doesn’t fix their export issue.

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