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Turkey Bans Periscope (stockholmcf.org)
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.
What is Periscope? I am guessing it is a type of food or drink. Anyhow, I am outraged about it.
APK was promising to spam Slashdot all last weekend about his BSD hosts file bullshit software. Then you didn't hear a peep about it during the weekend. More talk and no action from APK. Plus he gets very angry when called out, and will probably demand I give him my personal information while making a violent threat. APK failed to release his useless vaporware and his butthurt is now on display for all to see. I think I'll stick to using software that actually does secure my computer, such as a firewall and an intrusion detection system. And on Windows, I use F-Secure. No need for APK's hosts file crap. He only has eight out of context positive responses after spamming thousands of posts for two decades.
- CKS
Up to 1,000 teenage boys have been separated from their parents and thrown out of their communities by a polygamous sect to make more young women available for older men, Utah officials claim.
Many of these "Lost Boys", some as young as 13, have simply been dumped on the side of the road in Arizona and Utah, by the leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), and told they will never see their families again or go to heaven.
The 10,000-strong FLDS, which broke away from the Mormon church in 1890 when the mainstream faith disavowed polygamy, believes a man must marry at least three women to go to heaven. The sect appeared to be in turmoil yesterday, after its assets were frozen last week and a warrant was issued in Arizona on Friday for the arrest of its autocratic leader, Warren Jeffs, for arranging a wedding between an underage girl and a 28-year-old man who was already married.
Mr Jeffs is also being sued by lawyers for six of the Lost Boys for conspiracy to purge surplus males from the community, and by his nephew, Brent Jeffs, who accuses him of sexual abuse.
Warren Jeffs' whereabouts yesterday were uncertain, but Utah officials said they believed he may be hiding in an FLDS compound near Eldorado, Texas, and they have contacted the Texan authorities.
Some have voiced concern that an attempt to corner the sect leader could provoke a tragedy like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas.
Jim Hill, an investigator in Utah's attorney general's office, told The Guardian yesterday: "From everything I've been able to discern about Warren Jeffs, he is someone who is capable of some very different things. Whether that includes a mass suicide, I don't know. But I worry about it all the time."
FLDS officials and the sect's lawyer, Rodney Parker, did not return calls seeking comment, but have previously argued that the Lost Boys were exiled from their communities because they were teenage delinquents who refused to keep the sect's rules.
Mr Hill said although the boys may have been rebellious, their expulsion had more to do with the ruthless sexual arithmetic of a polygamous sect.
"Obviously if you're going to have three to one or four to one female to male marriages, you're going to run out of females. The way of taking care of it is selectively casting out those you don't want to be in the religion," the investigator said.
Dave Bills, who runs Smiles for Diversity, a foundation in Salt Lake City set up by an ex-FLDS member to look after the Lost Boys, said it was difficult to estimate their numbers because they had been scattered. But Mr Bills said the figures could be "as low as 400 and as high as 1,000".
"They live every day like it's their last day and they don't care about anything," Mr Bills said. "They're told they won't have three wives, and they're doomed. But they all want to go back to their mums."
One of the boys, Gideon Barlow, said he was expelled from a FLDS community in Colorado City, Arizona, for wearing short-sleeved shirts, listening to CDs and having a girlfriend. He said his mother rejected him on orders from the sect's leaders.
"I couldn't see how my mum would let them do what they did to me," he told the Los Angeles Times. After his expulsion, he attempted to give her a Mother's Day present but she told him to stay away. "I am dead to her now," he said.
Joanne Suder, a lawyer representing some of the Lost Boys in a case against the sect, said there had been "a conspiracy to excommunicate young boys to change the arithmetic so there are more young girls available for polygamy."
She said some of the boys were simply driven out of town and dumped on the side of the road, leaving them traumatised. "I think anyone who finds themselves ousted from the only environment they ever knew and left in the middle of nowhere, and then is not allowed to be with their family and loved ones, and is led to believe that they can no longer go to heaven, is going to be troubled," M
"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."
Shut the fuck up and let them rule themselves you psuedo-government lobbyist freaks.
Why was the turkey using a periscope? It's not November yet.
Lemon curd is quite delicious.
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, 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.
I lived in Turkey for two years.
This was planned by the government.
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?
Turkey has also banned its submarines.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
for submarines wanting to transit between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean
The stated reason for the ban makes no sense:
> The term “periscope” had been copyrighted by the local company at the Turkish Patent Institute.
How can one "copyright" a term? I assume they mean trademark? So what? The company can simply change its name for the local Turkish market. That is no excuse for a ban.
I laugh/snorted when i read the headline, thinking Turkey was trying to ban actual periscopes.
This is CRE1MER talking to his sockpuppet
Hoping that some random stranger finds his posts interesting enough to respond to.
This is CRE1MER talking to his sockpuppet
Hoping that some random stranger finds his posts interesting enough to respond to.
Seriously what the hell is wrong with you? Are you that lonely?
This is not a productive or healthy way to resolve loneliness. Prepare to feel worse and worse every day if you continue.
Prepare for silent running...
And nothing of value was lost.
Twitter, Apple and Google are just lazy and want to be able to do treat trademark law the same way they are already treating tax law. WIPO has an online search where you can easily search for trademark conflicts worldwide. It's a few minutes work to punch in some spelling variants and check that any conflicts that come up are not in similar industries.
n/t
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
Show me your moves
I can dig up more.
There are plenty of other "acrofatic" characters, and you might be able to catch one of them on someone's P***scope stream.
This is very interesting.
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,"
The same companies do not have problem to litigate in even more obscure countries like Poland ... ... .. where it will be pronounced something like ape-pe-el
using phonetical similarity (in foreign==english) language
domain AP.pl registered 10-20 years ago for company Art Production
it may sound similar but not on local market
Couple years ago they went for grocery store using for several years domain a.pl (a-pe-el)
But oh, we are sooo... big American Company (TM) how can we know ... or how we could find owner of the picture used by us ....
It looks that any domain starting with a is endangered in Poland.
or any product with name starting with "i".
Because there is some corpo iDiot who have to react.
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.
My Volkswagen is named Turkey, so therefore I no longer acknowledge the infringing body of land claiming to be called Turkey. How about Turkistan?
...once we get to the point where the pace of innovation settles down and a few generations have gotten used to whatever technology we settled for, then they will be all set. In the meantime, not so much...
Down periscope. Dive! Dive! Dive!
So someone could act stupid enough to make me believe they're tardchris?
And that would compel me to make an anonymous post? And then someone could laugh at my AC post?
Oh wow. I'd better just let you do whatever you want with no consequences!!!
I'm intellectually checkmated by tardChris.
How_to_defeat_CRE1MER_on_Slashdot!!!
1)Why-are-people-upset-with-him? 2)What-can-I-do? 3)What-are-his-sockpuppets? 4)Who-is-FatCashewsLovesMe? 5)How-to-defeat-his-hustles 6)Why-are-there-dashes?
1)Why-are-people-upset-with-himHe makes frequent low quality posts for two reasons:
Money)BASICALLY: He made thousands of shitty posts and bragged about how much money it made him.
DETAILS: He wants you to follow his referrer links. He wants you to have his referrer cookie, even if he links to something stupid and promises you that its great and you don't buy it. If you shop on some sites later on and buy other things he'll get a portion of what youve spent. He ALSO tries to drive traffic to various blogs and vlogs that so give him money.
KarmaHe believes karma accumulates infinitely. So he makes lots of pointless posts that are not bad enough to mod down but maybe you will mod them up if youre trying to use up your mod points. He was a raging ahole for awhile thinking that he had a warchest of karma armor to protect him.
3)What-can-I-do DOWNMOD you will usually get more mod points, get the oldest posts first you will have plenty of time to get around to the latest ones. Most metamods recognize his name and will not penalize you for modding him down. AC posts by him are usually refilled as well. METAMOD his posts down. REPLY ONLY as ANONYMOUS COWARD and reply only to the most deeply nested comments because this helps hide his posts. Downvote his SUBMISSIONS he has gotten banned for self promotion and also uses submission karma to dodge the mods.
3)What-are-his-sockpuppets Most famous: CRE1MER CDRE1MER, ILoveFatCashews, Anonymous Cashews, The Fat Bastard
4)Who-is-FatCashewsLoveMe Mildly annoying. Sort of funny. He works tirelessly to contain cr@imer. Not me. Not cr@imer
5)How-can-I-avoid-his-hustles DONT FOLLOW HIS LINKS!!!
IF YOU MUST:Use a private tab and never buy anything on the same session. You can get yourself a part of the commission hed get if you use a cashback shopping portal to buy whatever he spams on amazon, Ill let you pick your own. Or if he fools you just close the tab and clear the cookies for that site. There are other sites other than yutube that will let you watch his videos. I dont know if it even matters but I can picture his jowls jiggling at the though of people subverting his 'business model'
6)Why-are-there-dashes (and other weird stuff) I know most will only skim these posts and I want the most important information to sink in at a glance. If there is something of interest hopefully you can find it. I also avoid actually using "CRE1MER'S" name because he may think that he gets something from having it indexed by search engines.
If you would like to repost you can find a fully formatted copy of this post right here: https://pastebin.com/ZG8TzNLs