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Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's

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Post by trissylegs »

hobobaggins wrote: post #5

Why would they do this? It's a political statement from Amazon?

Maybe to stop idf or hamas soldiers posting videos of violence. There’s plenty of cases of that being posted to X. twitch being realtime would have a much harder time blocking or removing it

Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's

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Post by Hikikomori »

dtquad wrote: post #30
downWidOutaFite wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Yeah I'm sure FnF and Sneako are just progressive pro-Palestine activists. Hasan the Turkish nationalist promoting anti-Jewish terrorism to his American underage viewers is also just "anti-zionism".

This is exactly what he meant. Showing Israel killing civilians on stream is not anti Jewish terrorism.

Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's

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Post by WesolyKubeczek »

heyheyhouhou wrote: post #25

It 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...

Here on HN I tend to see the opposite: lots of staunch anti-israelism, sometimes bordering on plain old antisemitism, along with these statements like yours. I have showdead and showflagged enabled, yet I don’t see the flood of propaganda you keep talking about.

Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's

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Post by dadoum »

hobobaggins wrote: post #5

Why would they do this? It's a political statement from Amazon?

I have no sources backing this, but I think it could be related to the ban of a big streamer recently who made a "controversial" stance about what's happening in Gaza [0] and that could have lead to some people mass creating accounts on Twitch (that would not be unheard of when that kind of events happen, but again, I haven't seen any report of that happening).

[0]: https://x.com/HasanabiProd/status/1845889127629176966

Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's

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Post by Seattle3503 »

pityJuke wrote: post #8

Twitch 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?

I'm glad we miraculously re-discovered the value of free speech just in time for this most recent wave of antisemitism. /s

Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's

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Post by dtquad »

kuschku wrote: post #16

A possible explanation might be an automated anti-botnet system running wild. Israel and Palestine are an edge case with a comparatively small population and very active cyberwarfare groups, leading to a relatively high amount of bot traffic. But even that's quite a stretch, as the error message suggests a country-wide block instead of blocking one or a few ISPs.

A lot of pro-Palestinian online activism actually comes from the Israeli IP ranges. There are two million Palestinians with Israeli citizenship inside Israel and they are free to do pro-Palestinian activism as long as it doesn't call for the destruction of Israel or supports groups listed as terror groups.

These kind of IP range blocks tend to hurt the people they intended to help.

Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's

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Post by ben_w »

downWidOutaFite wrote: post #23
Sabinus wrote: post #14

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It's part of a pattern I've noticed with every Overton window: there's always a vocal minority who very loudly treat everything outside it as equivalent.

DDR called the Berlin wall an "anti-Facist protection barrier".

Extreme right in the USA calls the Democrats "communists".

Brexit extremists called every plan that wasn't theirs a betrayal and their supporters "quislings".

Last I heard, Netanyahu is keeping some extemists in power because without them he's not got the popular support needed to keep the job.

Also, do consider that the thing last year was proportionally much worse for Israel than 9/11 was for the USA.

That's not a justification, and I don't see it being good for Israel to support those extremists. (Obviously it's not good for Palestinians, but the extemists don't care about them).

Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's

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Post by dtquad »

Hikikomori wrote: post #32
dtquad wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I'm sure FnF and Sneako are just progressive pro-Palestine activists. Hasan the Turkish nationalist promoting anti-Jewish terrorism to his American underage viewers is also just "anti-zionism".

This is exactly what he meant. Showing Israel killing civilians on stream is not anti Jewish terrorism.

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