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Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality' (apnews.com)
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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 93 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 52 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mom, can we get water bottles at home?

No, we already have water bottles at home.

Water bottles at home:

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] ZiemekZ@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That one I've never heard of.

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

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 months ago

Really? I somehow blissfully missed that. WTF.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I fucking despise religious reactionaries.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 11 points 3 months 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.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I read it as "to prevent immortality"

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months 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.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 23 points 3 months ago

Everyone knows CAT5 is pure...

[–] weegee90@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

We did it Patrick! We ended immorality!

[–] Lupo@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 months ago

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

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I never walk away from this song feeling better.

[–] Varying9125@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope they don't find out about ethernet

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 1 points 3 months 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

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Stop giving the GOP ideas.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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 4 points 3 months 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: https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

[–] the_visitor@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Least insane Taliban action

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months 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.........

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I thought they only banned talis