Taliban order ban on smartphones as officials shown destroying devices
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Don’t go back to pagers, guys!
Why are they destroying them tho, I'll pay for the shipping.
Darn I was always kind of interested in looking at the Snapchat stories in random places in Afghanistan
I mean, I got to say, I think I can actually get behind this one. A broken clock is right twice a day. I don't support the whole "cut the populace off from the internet" thing. But a population-wide smart phone ban specifically? That's something I could actually get behind.
smartphones are not the problem. even a ban on social media would hit closer to the root of the problem. speaking of that, didn't they do that already?
Perhaps they'd like to place a bulk order for the new Commodore phone?