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Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
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Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#22Twitch 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?
Worth pointing out that FnF and Sneako are actual far-right anti-semites and not just the generic left-wing pro-Palestine activists.
Indeed. There’s a whole ‘nother controversy on the platform (which the tweet poster is a part of), but that’s far less clear cut than those two.
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#24Why would they do this? It's a political statement from Amazon?
Looks like they’ve been doing it since the start of the war, unless we have better source that it’s new than a tweet? I think it’s just coming up now because of twitch con related controversy. Either way it appears to be an attempt to keep themselves out of the spotlight, controversy wise. Definitely not a political statement, if for no other reason than they haven’t issued any statements. Also, the title is understa…
> Also, the obvious hypocrisy of not banning accounts from Sudan, Ukraine, Russia, etc. doesn’t help their image.
There's a very large difference here. They know what decision about those will get them into trouble and what decisions won't.
Or rather, it's also obvious what decisions will get a large US company into trouble on the context of the Israel wars. Every single one of them, whatever direction they are biased into.
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#25It is well known that Israel uses botnets and user-controlled fake accounts to steer public opinion in social media.
Reddit, youtube, instagram and lots of media outlets are flooded with pro-israeli propaganda or massive downvoting to any critizism against Israel. Also here in hacker news...
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I am predispositioned to agree with this wholeheartedly but the member of a civil society in me has to draw a line at conspiratorial suggestions in the last sentence.
I gotta point out that sort of thing isn't appropriate even in my in-group, so I can make fun of it when the out-group does it.
If I were more honest and had more time, I'd have the courage to suggest that even though I assumed the first part is true, I shouldn't have, especially given the overall standards of evidence seem low.
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#27It is well known that Israel uses botnets and user-controlled fake accounts to steer public opinion in social media. Reddit, youtube, instagram and lots of media outlets are flooded with pro-israeli propaganda or massive downvoting to any critizism against Israel. Also here in hacker news...
> It is well known that Israel...
It is well known that any cybersecurity aware country... here I point to some papers/articles [1][2][3] just as a reference of the modus operandi, not to isolate a particular country.
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.07109
[2] https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/gf7jb/download
[3] https://www.foi.se/download/18.6b6fc4521690ffa2022169/155076...
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#28Why would they do this? It's a political statement from Amazon?
The block was hardcoded into the source code on October 13, 2023. I think it would have been done by one of the ops teams if it was required by management. Probably just something done by a single dev.
Is there a source for this?
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#29It is well known that Israel uses botnets and user-controlled fake accounts to steer public opinion in social media. Reddit, youtube, instagram and lots of media outlets are flooded with pro-israeli propaganda or massive downvoting to any critizism against Israel. Also here in hacker news...
Hey now, the ones on hackernews probably do it for free on their own time.