"There is now a menace called the printing press. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, movable type is the worst menace to society." -- some fucking Pope or other.
To be fair an Ottoman Sultan banned Ottoman script from being printed, effectively banning the printing press across the Ottoman empire and pretty ending the Ottoman golden age, starting it's descent.
The irony of Tayyip Erdogan's Neo-Ottomanist dreams is not lost on me with this statement.
The irony of Tayyip Erdogan's Neo-Ottomanist dreams is not lost on me with this statement.