Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
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Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#2Also feasible that nationwide GPS spoofing in Israel makes it harder to automatically approve new account creations. If Israel is redirecting GPS systems to neighboring territories (eg. Syria or Iran) then it's pretty easy to see why those countries would be banned.
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Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#4Also feasible that nationwide GPS spoofing in Israel makes it harder to automatically approve new account creations. If Israel is redirecting GPS systems to neighboring territories (eg. Syria or Iran) then it's pretty easy to see why those countries would be banned.
Geolocation does not use GPS, it uses IP addresses.
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#5Why would they do this? It's a political statement from Amazon?
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@dang the username "pajeets" is a racist term against people from India and nearby countries.
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#8Twitch recently unbanned two rather anti-semitic individuals in the form of “FreshAndFit” and “sneako”, which makes this decision all the more perplexing. Do they want to appear as if they are anti-semitic?
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#9What’s more likely, an Amazon owned company blocking Israeli accounts on moral/ethical grounds or some backend technical reason? My guess is the latter…
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#10Why would they do this? It's a political statement from Amazon?
maybe excessive fake/bot account creations, which might be impacting quality of discussions