Twitch is now blocking users from Israel

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I'm surprised how little attention this is getting. I can't think of a technical reason to ban a whole country vs just the abusive ASNs. Considering the lack of response, I would assume this is an automated mistake or internal bad actors

>internal bad actors

The Israel-block seems to be hardcoded into their source code on October 13th 2023 according to an anonymous employee.

I think if it was something decided by management it would have been one of the various ops teams doing it and not something you will see hardcoded into source code.

This definitely smells internal bad actor.

Twitch has been blocking Israel since October 13th, 2023.

What reasons were given?

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