What’s more likely, an Amazon owned company blocking Israeli accounts on moral/ethical grounds or some backend technical reason? My guess is the latter…
Or one employee being an activist and sneaking in a config change.
Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
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Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#42It 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...
Do you have any evidence that Israeli-controlled accounts were operating on Twitch (a video-game livestreaming company), and that this required an entire country-level IP block after october 7th?
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#43A 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.
Rumors say it was explicitly blocked on an alleged github push
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#44Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#45There is context that makes this not just look like a simple technical issue. Twitch promotes a certain twitch streamer who is openly and brazenly supportive of hamas terrorists, and has said some very evil things, and spread a lot of disinformation, by any measure violating many rules. Then there is the 2 people being unbanned that others mentioned, both of which doing similar things. Interestingly, the first person I mentioned is far-left, and these 2 people (atleast one of them) are far right.
So it definitely goes beyond just looking like an innocent error in my eyes. I can't think of any logical reason whatsoever they'd ban israelis intentionally.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is exactly what he meant. Showing Israel killing civilians on stream is not anti Jewish terrorism.
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Lying? I didn't even mention or talk about those people. "He" being the guy you responded to, saying that you cannot be against Israel's genocide and Zionist mission without being called an anti semite.
Both of your replies are examples of what Zionists usually do, thank you for showing us again.
And I don't even know who Sneako or FNF is, what they've done or said, or if they should be banned or not.
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
We'll know for sure the next time twitch's source code leaks
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#48Can recommend the Bad Hasbara podcast if you want to listen to a sane discussion on Israeli propaganda, only a tiny amount of penis jokes.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-hasbara-the-worlds...
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#49Why 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/18458891276291769…
The block seems to be in effect since at least May: https://x.com/Forceultraomega/status/1795189735297605635
So unlikely has anything to do with a recent ban.
Re: Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
#50The Twitter account posting this seems a bit unhinged, with the snitch tagging of everyone from th ADL to the ACLU and the weird speculation about a "purple haired" person. I'm not inclined to take their description of the scope of the block at face value; is there a better source?
(Also, Twitch is within their rights to decide in which countries they offer their service, and there could be any number of reasons for that kind of decision.)