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guitarbill on March 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Guide to Slack import and export tools

Ass-covering. It should've been obvious as soon as HR was mentioned that this isn't about helping employees, harassed or not.

shawnz on March 21, 2018 [–]

Before this change, would the company have been liable for harassing DMs on Slack, an unaffiliated service where they previously were not able to read peoples DMs?

efuquen on March 21, 2018 | [–]

> an unaffiliated service

Unaffiliated? The company a customer that is paying Slack for a messaging service, that certainly isn't 'unaffiliated'.

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