[HN Gopher] Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
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       Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
        
       Author : drones
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-10-20 22:31 UTC (28 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | talldayo wrote:
       | Also 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.
        
         | aduffy wrote:
         | Geolocation does not use GPS, it uses IP addresses.
        
       | hobobaggins wrote:
       | Why would they do this? It's a political statement from Amazon?
        
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