Turkey Bans Periscope (stockholmcf.org) 87
stikves writes: According to online reports, a recent court order has banned Periscope across Turkey. The cited reason is the alleged violation of copyrights of a local company named "Periskop." This adds to the list of online services no longer available in Turkey, including Wikipedia, PayPal and WordPress, among others. While access from Turkey to the domain periscope.tv and to the Twitter account "periscopeco" is banned, users can still access Periscope services under the name Scope TR and Twitter account "scopetr." Lawyers from Twitter, Apple and Google requested rejection of the case, "saying it was impossible for a company like Twitter, operating in the U.S., to be aware of the existence of the same brand name in Turkey," reports Stockholm Center for Freedom.
That is terrible! (Score:1, Flamebait)
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Re: That is terrible! (Score:2)
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Yes, much better ask Slashdot.
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Ironically, this is a fine thing to have and be able to do unless you live in the country which has just banned Periscope. Wikipedia was banned April 2017. Sucks to live under a dictator.
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Yup. mod parent up. Turkey, a country with a questionable human-rights record (and desperately wants to get into the EU) is calling this a copyright/trademark issue?? LOL!!! I gotta admit, they are trying to be creative in their ongoing subjugation. The two parts of the article basically sum up.
"A Turkish court on Tuesday banned all services of Periscope, a live video broadcasting platform...
"Turkey has temporarily blocked social media sites including Facebook and Twitter in the past, usually following prot
Acrofatic (Score:2)
So what if a net filtering tool developer looks like Poppin Fresh? You must not have paid attention to the energy with which Poppin moves around in some of the Pillsbury commercials.
Land that jump dude [youtu.be]
Show me your moves [youtube.com]
I can dig up more.
There are plenty of other "acrofatic" characters [allthetropes.org], and you might be able to catch one of them on someone's P***scope stream.
Purpose Please (Score:1)
So you are saying, on Slashdot, that if an older man were to become a Mormon you have access to lots of young hot females.
Is this some kind of Slashvertisement?
Wish I cared ... (Score:2, Interesting)
I really wish I could muster up some sympathy for how an ever-increasingly thuggish and authoritarian asshole like Erdogan is doing even more thuggish and authoritarian shit.
But, I can't.
What we need to do is stop coddling his ego that he's a member of the Western democracies, and let him get on with building his theocracy and fuck the hell off.
It'll be just another source of angry Muslims in the world, nobody will even notice.
Erdogan... (Score:2, Insightful)
Erdogan, another regressive disgusting piece of trash that has been freely, wllingly and knowingly democratically elected by the mindless, populist and guillible masses that more and more, in this sort of mini dark ages we're living through, force their collective stupidity on the thinking minority.
Re:Erdogan... (Score:5, Insightful)
Erdogan = Khomeini
Turkey is slowly becoming Iran while Atatürk is rolling in his grave
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Erdogan = Khomeini
Turkey is slowly becoming Iran while Atatürk is rolling in his grave
That's what it looked like.
I've heard Kemalist Turkey's political system described as "Democracy ... except Turkey will never be an Islamist state. Elect an Islamist, the moment he tries to implement Islamist policies, there will be a military coup, the army will shoot as many Islamists as seems necessary, and then surprisingly soon, hold new elections. Vote better next time."
Alas, Erdogan carefully purged the Kemalists from the army before making Turkey an Islamist state, and by the time the army caught
Not a Coincidence. (Score:2)
I lived in Turkey for two years.
This was planned by the government.
In related news... (Score:2)
Turkey has also banned its submarines.
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Good. They can't see where their going anyway.
That's a bit rough (Score:5, Funny)
for submarines wanting to transit between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean
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What Moscow can do for their brave sailors of the Black Sea fleet!? First they almost get contained in another country and then they are banned using periscopes.
Re:Trademark, not copyright (Score:4, Insightful)
The stated reason does not have to make sense. Turkey is no longer a democracy, Erdogan has locked thousands in jail to silence opposition and is following classic authoritarian techniques to secure his control over everything.
Oh THAT Periscope (Score:2)
Down Periscope! (Score:2)
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Not impossible (Score:2)
Indirectly, this is actually good news! (Score:2)
L:ike everyone else in here I had no clue what Periscope is, so I clicked the link. It's actually Slashdotted!
Old-timers will remember that when Slashdot was at the peak of its popularity and people read the articles before commenting, any linked article would be effectively DDoSed by being accessed by the vast herd of users.