Country IP Blocking blocks Twitch

[bryandonmarc]

When OFAC Sanctioned Countries IPs are blocked in the Country IP Blocking category, any connections made by the video player in Twitch is blocked as well. The website and other functionality works fine, but playing a stream results in a black error screen with There was a network error. Please try again. (Error #2000). Looking at DevTools console, the following error is logged:

Player stopping playback - error MediaPlaylist:9 (ErrorNetworkIO code -1 - Failed to fetch) from https://static.twitchcdn.net/assets/amazon-ivs-wasmworker.min-*.js

[bryandonmarc]

Solution is as described from a previous issue I've encountered. Thanks to @HotCakeX

Simply open Local Group Policy Editor and navigate to this area:

And in the Inbound & Outbound sections, right-click > Disable Rule the OFAC Sanctioned Countries IP range blocking or simply delete them.

Afterwards, running gpupdate /force in a PowerShell terminal and refreshing Twitch on your browser will solve the issue.