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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.
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.
for submarines wanting to transit between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean
I laugh/snorted when i read the headline, thinking Turkey was trying to ban actual periscopes.
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.
Except another piece of freedom in Turkey off course.
The Turkish trademark is for the rather broad category of "services", so food or drink would probably get past it. There are 88 US trademarks for "Periscope", so whoever it was wasn't very good at choosing unique names to be recognized by.