Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality'
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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.
Because almost everyone else in the world has begun referring to their entire internet connection as "Wi-Fi" and it pisses me off, too.
I've also noticed it's becoming more common to call desktop PCs laptops, interesting linguistic shift
The fuck..? Seriously? That’s like calling a faucet a water bottle.
Mom, can we get water bottles at home?
No, we already have water bottles at home.
Water bottles at home:
I love my city (Beirut) it is full of trams (Kia Picanto 2013 base model w/ automatic transmission)
Haven't noticed that. It's dead obvious that desktop PCs aren't mobile at all, and mobility is what makes laptops laptops.
That one I've never heard of.
The wifi thing I've heard mothbreathers start to do.
Really? I somehow blissfully missed that. WTF.
I fucking despise religious reactionaries.
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.
I read it as "to prevent immortality"
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"
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
....can't have these immortals running around all willy-nilly. For sure that's haram.
I’m gonna level with you, brother, immorality existed way before the internet.
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.
Seriously, nothing is new. It came from something else.
Everyone knows CAT5 is pure...
We did it Patrick! We ended immorality!
I read the entire article incredibly confused because I thought it said immortality
I misread this as immortality and was immediately curious what they knew that I don’t
I hope they don't find out about ethernet
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
"Fitter, healthier and more productive
A pig
In a cage
On antibiotics"
I never walk away from this song feeling better.
Stop giving the GOP ideas.
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)?
Fun (sad?) fact: AOL will soon shut down dial up on September 30th 2025: https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued
They should denounce all the weapons from the US. Obviously, those are haram, and against the religion.
Haram?
Yes.
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.........
Least insane Taliban action
I thought they only banned talis