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Türkiye Bans Roblox
- baggy_trough 2y ago[flagged]
- Cody-99 2y ago[flagged]
- baggy_trough 2y agoI beg to differ. One of the characters isn't even in the English alphabet!
- kevin_b_er 2y agoThat name is not in English, as evidenced by the non-English letter.
- Cody-99 2y agoThere are tons of common words in English that use non English characters. No one argues those words need to be changed so I'm not sure why so many people here are so gungho about it.
- wl 2y agoYes, beginning in 2022 the government of the Republic of Turkey asked people to use "Türkiye" in English rather than the traditional spelling, "Turkey," which dates back to the 18th century in English or possibly earlier. Yes, "Türkiye" is used in diplomatic contexts in English because that's what Turkey's government requests. However, it's hard to argue that it's a real English name given the orthography is obnoxiously foreign. There are two letters present that are not normally used in English orthography. The obvious one is Ü/ü, which is used here as a different vowel rather than the usual (but rare) usage in English to indicate that two vowels next to each other are NOT a diphthong. The less obvious but more troublesome letter is the dotted I, İ/i. It is ONLY used in English to write "Türkiye," inflicting the dotted/dotless I problem on anyone who writes "Türkiye" or "TÜRKİYE" regardless of the language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I_in_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I_in_comput...
- baggy_trough 2y agoThey are welcome to ask, but the correct response is a polite "No."
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- bigstrat2003 2y agoNo, the correct name of the country in English is Turkey.
- thih9 2y agoWikipedia says: "Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye"[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
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- axus 2y agoLet's treat Türkiye's pronouns with the respect they treat ours.
- mproud 2y ago[flagged]
- lnsru 2y agoI had a hard time trying to understand what my kid is doing there. The “games” were weird. I have an impression that it was very highly addictive. So it’s gone from my home.
- Fauntleroy 2y agoIt's basically a pipeline for every possible bad thing that could happen to your child. I'm glad you got rid of it
- adversaryIdiot 2y agoYou didnt understand something... so you banned it?
- phatfish 2y agoThis isn't a parent not understanding "computers" in the 90's, it's a predatory game targeting young children designed to empty their parents wallets.
- mrmetanoia 2y agoMy nephews were into it. I tried to play with them and there were not a ton of real games. Some fun like driving maps people had made just to crash and jump ramps, some shooting gallery things. The thing that concerned me was the amount of games that were obvious gambling type stimulation. Games where you do nothing but collect coins or points to get a shot at a pet or piece of loot, but then block access after a few free hits with a timed wall that could be removed for robux. The other thing that concerned me was the amount of adults there just to 'play' i joined a shooting 'game' (just a bunch of stuff to shoot and guns laying around) and there was voice chat included and some guy with an eastern european accent making homophobic jokes and talking about how someone should add lazy mexicans as targets. Not uncommon online, but roblox I had at one time thought was trying to be a childrens platform, boy was I wrong. I let my SIL know she might want to keep them off that or be present whenever they play. She did not listen until one of my nephews stole her credit card and used it to buy a bunch of crap online.
- dash2 2y ago[flagged]
- darby_nine 2y agoJust like every other part of life, I'll generally call people what they ask to be called. Türkiye has requested internationally to be known under this name.
- eps 2y agoWell, there are no umlauts in English.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoThat's not an umlaut, that's a Ü. It's just a normal letter in Turkish, unlike in German where the umlaut is a vowel modifier.
- whatgoodisaroad 2y agoIn fact there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical_marks#Native_English_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical...
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- esafak 2y agoThe government requested that, but not its people. Apparently it was a branding exercise: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913
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- nemetroid 2y agoYes, it’s a rebranding, that’s what the word means.
- Y_Y 2y agoOn the other hand, Turkey might do well to look at Robux as a model for a stable currency.
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- ein0p 2y agoTurkey by the way also blocks porn. This is surprising for tourists, but at the same time not surprising for a predominantly Muslim country.
- d_theorist 2y ago[flagged]
- dark-star 2y ago[flagged]
- dark-star 2y ago[flagged]
- dark-star 2y agoTurns out they do. Source: two muslim co-workers (although living in a non-muslim country, that might be a factor)
- benwad 2y agoI'm guessing Turkish residents probably use a VPN.
- dang 2y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- katzinsky 2y agoShouldn't that be surprising? Christianity has the same rules around pornography so predominantly Christian countries would block it for the same reason. Or perhaps there are no predominantly Christian countries anymore.
- Fauntleroy 2y ago[flagged]
- Frieren 2y ago> Sexual exploitation concerns > Promotion of homosexuality > Incentives for children through virtual currency The official also highlighted issues with “robux,” Roblox’s virtual currency. Reports indicated that bot accounts were distributing robux to incentivize children’s participation in the aforementioned problematic activities. Challenges in content oversight > The inability to effectively monitor and regulate inappropriate content on Roblox The homosexuality part is kind of absurd, but very in line with other Türkiye policies. For the rest they seem very reasonable. Predatory monetization methods in games for adults are bad, applying the same methods to children is pure evil. I will prefer strong regulations than banning. The same the we do with gambling.
- big-green-man 2y agoI don't really see the homosexuality part as absurd. It is to be expected in their less tolerant culture. Remember, Turkey is the only majority Muslim country in the world where homosexuality is legal. They're pretty tolerant comparatively, but their culture is such that they don't want to encourage it. I wouldn't want to live in their society but I do believe in national self determination.
- LordShredda 2y agosimply false and a simple search brings up more results
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- hrkucuk 2y agoIt seems that there is a persistent desire to call the country whatever you are used to. As a Turkish, I would add the points: You can call it whatever you want. Turkey is the historical name of the region. I believe the bird's name was also adopted from the fact that the bird came to Western world through Turkiye. The bird comes to us from India, so we call it "Hindi" in Turkish. I hope India one day does not change its name to something else because they don't want to be associated with what other people call them. Oh wait, they call themselves as Bharat(a) actually. In Turkish, the word "spice" is called "Baharat". Go figure. Another important point for people who want to dead name Turkiye is this: When South Sudan was separate from Sudan, they were called South Sudan. Nobody disputed their name. If Turkiye split in two one day, one might call itself "Eastern Turkiye". In that case I just hope nobody tells them, 'no I will call you "Eastern Turkey" because that's what the other country was called which you were part of before.' We are not called "Ottoman Kingdom 2.0" for some reason. Now we apparently chose ourselves a new name to be referred in foreign languages. They did not consult me, tbh. But it fits what we call it in our original language (we call it "Türkiye"), so I am actually happy about it. So if you show respect to that decision then you show that as it is. If you don't respect it then, well you don't, and that's that. No kebap for you (/s). About Roblox: My nephew coming of age invited me to play computer games. He told me to install Roblox but I haven't even heard about it and it did not appeal to me. I told him to install Sven-Co-op, because Half-Life is awesome and Sven Co-Op gives you multiplayer feature for free. We played for a while but he was dead bored and he quit. I was genuinely hurt but did not show it. New generation likes other things I guess. Then we played Roblox and honestly it had worse graphics than Half-Life, which is 25 years old game. Somehow it was boring to me but enjoyable to my Gen Z nephew. Well I hope he won't get too hardly shaken by the news, anyhow, somehow I feel relieved about this ban. These days he talks about "making his own games". I want to wait until a bit before I tell him the bad news about making games, but in general I am happy about the direction he is thinking.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> they call themselves as Bharat(a) actually We call ourselves Indian and the country India in English. It would be a bit odd to hear someone refer Bharat in English.
- mistrial9 2y ago[flagged]
- kps 2y agoNotwithstanding non-English characters, we say Germany not Deutschland, Sweden not Sverige, Finland not Suomi, Italy not Italia, .... And flagging is too often just bullies' super-downvote.
- thih9 2y agoWe say the Netherlands not Holland, Sri Lanka not Ceylon, Czechia is getting more popular[1] and sometimes replaces Czech Republic; Türkiye would not be the first country to have its English name altered. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Czech_Republic#Adoption_of_Czechia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Czech_Republic#Ado...
- aragonite 2y agoIn English we already have naïve, coöperate, reëlect as perfectly acceptable, if somewhat old-fashioned spellings. So I'd argue the look at least of Türkiye [1] is not as foreign as the two examples you gave :) [1] Admittedly the diacritic is an umlaut not diaeresis, but I take your point to be about the (supposedly) foreign appearance of Türkiye.