Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality' (apnews.com)
from ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 16:03
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Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 16:09 next collapse

Does this fellow have stock (ownership?) in local DSL providers? Or perhaps even dialup (I am assuming dialup is still a thing in parts of the country)?

user224@lemmy.sdf.org on 16 Sep 16:26 collapse

I am assuming dialup is still a thing in parts of the country

Fun (sad?) fact: AOL will soon shut down dial up on September 30th 2025: help.aol.com/…/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinue…

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 16 Sep 17:26 next collapse

I fucking despise religious reactionaries.

palordrolap@fedia.io on 16 Sep 18:26 collapse

That's just a symptom of moral prescriptivism, which in turn is a symptom of otherwise impotent desire for control over a weird and scary world.

That doesn't mean they're making good choices, but it does explain why they're making them.

Varying9125@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:46 next collapse

I hope they don’t find out about ethernet

cute_noker@feddit.dk on 17 Sep 03:42 collapse

At this point it seems hard to ban the internet. But especially impossible for the backwards Taliban that have lived in caves for the last 40 years.

I doubt that they know that they just started a whack-a-mole

FauxLiving@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:47 next collapse

How can the AP make such a basic mistake as calling Internet access ‘Wi-Fi’?

The Taliban didn’t ban Wi-Fi, they banned fiber optic internet connections. People can run Wi-Fi networks all day.

HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 20:45 collapse

Because almost everyone else in the world has begun referring to their entire internet connection as “Wi-Fi” and it pisses me off, too.

KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz on 16 Sep 22:55 next collapse

I’ve also noticed it’s becoming more common to call desktop PCs laptops, interesting linguistic shift

ZiemekZ@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 23:56 next collapse

Haven’t noticed that. It’s dead obvious that desktop PCs aren’t mobile at all, and mobility is what makes laptops laptops.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 17 Sep 01:29 next collapse

The fuck…? Seriously? That’s like calling a faucet a water bottle.

wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 11:09 collapse

Mom, can we get water bottles at home?

No, we already have water bottles at home.

Water bottles at home:

ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Sep 12:00 collapse

I love my city (Beirut) it is full of trams (Kia Picanto 2013 base model w/ automatic transmission)

ripcord@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 12:37 collapse

That one I’ve never heard of.

The wifi thing I’ve heard mothbreathers start to do.

medem@lemmy.wtf on 17 Sep 11:15 collapse

Really? I somehow blissfully missed that. WTF.

eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 17:48 next collapse

I thought they only banned talis

aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 19:15 next collapse

I’m gonna level with you, brother, immorality existed way before the internet.

abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 19:22 next collapse

it’s not about immorality, it’s to limit the access to outside information in a country where most internet access is done through smartphones.

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 16 Sep 23:26 collapse

Seriously, nothing is new. It came from something else.

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone on 16 Sep 19:51 next collapse

so glad the us bombed their country gave them false hope and then dicked over all the people when they turned it back over to the taliban.........

weegee90@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 19:59 next collapse

We did it Patrick! We ended immorality!

whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Sep 21:33 next collapse

“Fitter, healthier and more productive
A pig
In a cage
On antibiotics”

ksigley@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 00:29 collapse

I never walk away from this song feeling better.

Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip on 16 Sep 23:01 next collapse

I misread this as immortality and was immediately curious what they knew that I don’t

Ulrich@feddit.org on 16 Sep 23:50 next collapse

Everyone knows CAT5 is pure…

Lupo@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 00:26 next collapse

I read the entire article incredibly confused because I thought it said immortality

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 00:41 next collapse

Least insane Taliban action

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today on 17 Sep 04:15 next collapse

I read it as “to prevent immortality”

Alteon@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 04:23 collapse

I did as well. Didn’t even cross my mind that it was wrong. Just went, “It’s about on par with all the other goofy shit they believe and have laws against. Why not ban it because of potential immortality. Sure”

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today on 17 Sep 04:26 collapse

I love it how we expect it to say immortality, and just roll with it, as if that is a thing the Taliban worry about

Alteon@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 11:49 collapse

…can’t have these immortals running around all willy-nilly. For sure that’s haram.

the_visitor@sh.itjust.works on 17 Sep 06:04 next collapse

They should denounce all the weapons from the US. Obviously, those are haram, and against the religion.

ripcord@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 12:23 collapse

Haram?

myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip on 17 Sep 11:57 collapse

Stop giving the GOP ideas.