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Turkey Bans Periscope (stockholmcf.org)

Posted by BeauHD on 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.

3 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Erdogan... by dmesg0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Erdogan = Khomeini
    Turkey is slowly becoming Iran while Atatürk is rolling in his grave

  2. That's a bit rough by rossdee · · Score: 4, Funny

    for submarines wanting to transit between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean

  3. Re:Trademark, not copyright by Anonymous Coward · · 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.