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

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• Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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

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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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• weegee90@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We did it Patrick! We ended immorality!

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• phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I fucking despise religious reactionaries.

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  • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• Varying9125@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hope they don’t find out about ethernet

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought they only banned talis

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