Turkey Bans Periscope (stockholmcf.org)

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:00AM from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

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.

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Wish I cared ... by Anonymous Coward · 2018-06-13 10:37 · 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.