Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality'

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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • medem@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Really? I somehow blissfully missed that. WTF.

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• phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I fucking despise religious reactionaries.

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  • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I read it as “to prevent immortality”

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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”

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Everyone knows CAT5 is pure…

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• weegee90@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We did it Patrick! We ended immorality!

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• Lupo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Varying9125@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I hope they don’t find out about ethernet

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  • cute_noker@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • ksigley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I never walk away from this song feeling better.

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Stop giving the GOP ideas.

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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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)?

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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…

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• the_visitor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Haram?

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    • the_visitor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes.

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• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Least insane Taliban action

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.........

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought they only banned talis

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