Same can be said for virtually any resource in existence provided you hammer population with enough focused negative publicity of that resource.

They do care about reliability and latency both. If their clients suddenly have to wait become something in debit transactions lags, you'll lose customers.

And was successfully circumvented, like most such precedents, later on?

Are you sure you want to lock that answer? Because if you bother watching news, you'll see plenty of people who are genuinely convinced that these things are good. It may not be your opinion or mine, but it most certainly represents enough people in US so that representatives who vote for this are not voted out of office next term. And plenty who are getting elected are campaigning on the platform of security over freedoms.

You mean like we could claim has happened in US in case of "we are 99%" movement?

Do continue with that train of logic to the end please. Don't just apply it to the mosquito on the wall and ignore elephant shitting in the room.

There is no chance of that any more than there is a chance of that in US. Turkey is a democratic country and proud of it. Islamists are proud of the fact that in spite of being dispersed by West-supported military in multiple coups, it always came back to power because of democratic forces, and this time it managed to successfully sever the army's power by imprisoning certain key generals who were planning the next coup.

They are actually winning in IWC, as it even took non-binding votes to overturn moratorium which ended up in favor. But IWC's rules are lax, and as a result both moratorium AND allowing for whaling are in place and fully legal.

So your entire argument is based on "this is illogical", and yet you applied it to a very emotional issue. ...

You do realize we're talking about humans right?

Same goes for pretty much any fish that is on top of the food chain, such as various tuna species.

Not so much a "mess" as a "no man's land". Essentially the territory in question is seas in the middle of nowhere and under no jurisdiction. Australia claims that having its EEZ gives it jurisdiction, claim so dubious that no one takes it seriously.

It's basically Japan vs Australia measuring who has the biggest and fastest ships. Or dicks.

They claim they want to prove that whales are numerous enough to again allow for commercial whaling, and that such proof would be impossible to gather without research. Assuming you see whales as just another resource, like fish, this is a reasonable stance to take.

The underlying issue is that many countries want a total moratorium on whaling for cultural reasons. Japan and several other countries with long culture of whaling view this as insanity and see whales as the same as any other nautical resource. In a way they are right, many of modern fish stocks are in much worse condition then many of the whale stocks, but because many of the countries that want total moratorium have severe vested interests in fishing but no whaling, they deflect attention from painful decisions that need to be taken in regards to fishery policy by focusing attention on whaling which is essentially free for them - as they do not have a whaling fleet or culture of whaling.

Do explain which international laws forbid whale hunting the way Japan practices it. It's a completely legal practice according to IWC.

Also kindly cite how Australia's EEZ has any relevance to this case. Be specific - do not cite unsubstantiated claims by interested parties as absolute evidence.

You are disputing my knowledge based on the fact that I didn't go in depth on Turkey's history about what led to Ataturk's rise to power, his policies, reasons for his policies and how his legacy lived on in a slashdot post... yet you are making an effort to look like you're not disputing it?

Is that supposed to make you look less hypocritical? Because if that was the intention, it failed in a spectacular fashion.

It has been made pretty clear by historians that everyone was guilty. Serbs were picked as a primary target because of the realpolitik issues - namely weakening Russian influence in Balkans.

Irrelevant in the scope of the argument. Erdogan's policies are widely supported by islamist voters, who view secular society as the oppressor and Erdogan as leader that is setting them free of those shackles.