Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline Afghanistan has dropped off the global internet. Outage-watchers NetBlocks and Cloudflare both attribute the outage to government action, a reasonable assumption given that the Taliban who rule Afghanistan recently cut off internet access in some provinces, citing the need to curb immoral behaviour. NetBlocks and Cloudflare …
Is the haunting fear that somewhere, some woman might be happy.
Actually, the haunting fear of fundamentalists is that schooled women are better in everything than the "crown of creation". They know, they saw it around them.
These men are closet InCels, living in fear of a world where women have no use for them anymore.
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"The Register is not aware of a government deciding telecommunications and the internet have no role in its society "
The Taliban are not a government.
They are a bunch of crazed zealots of a non-existant "religion" that has been cobbled together with nonsense and hatred to put down women.
Women no longer have the right to education, nor to work. They only exist to bear children. I've heard that they are not even allowed to invite their women friends for tea - not that they have tea anyway.
So no more midwives, no nurses and, since men are not allowed to touch them, no medical care from male doctors. This brain-dead thinking is self-defeating. Once most of the women have died in childbirth of from some sort of untreated disease, there won't be enough male children to continue the proud Taliban legacy. That means that, in the worst-case scanario, in fifty years or so the Taliban will all have died out because there won't be enough male children to indoctrinate.
Well done Taliban, you've set your own clock on your demise.
Meanwhile, the women are going to go through unimaginable suffering.
Unfortunately, random statistics being random, the history of mankind has shown that your prediction for the collapse of the Taliban is unlikely to actually happen. Make enough women pregnant enough times and statistically a relevant amount of the babies will make it to adulthood.
"The Taliban are not a government."
Unfortunately, in Afghanistan, it is. It's a country where the Church run the country and all of the rest is just decoration for the fools.
There's no such thing as separation of church and state in Muslim system in general, so the Church *is* the government. Theocracies are funny like that.
Many will be looking to this edict by the Taliban and thinking “thank <insert deity here> it couldn’t happen here”. But the truth is that this isn’t a particularly Islamist problem. It’s a fundamentalist problem. There will be those in the American Christian fundamentalist movement who are thinking what an excellent idea this is. They don’t even need to be particular religious. I’m sure Trump and many of his cronies think this is a wonderful idea now that they’re actually in government. After all, it would weaken opposition against them - and that’s the whole point. As long as Trump and his loyal tech bros can continue to enjoy tech.
But in ten years time? Right wing fundamentalism is right wing fundamentalist - and maybe the pendulum will have swung everyone into their own version of Afghanistan.
Far left, heading into extremist territory, yes. Just like the far right. Your average left leaning person? No, not even close. On fact pretty much the exact opposite. Same for your average rightist. The extremists are the ones getting all the headlines at the moment, especially in the US, and has reached the levels where most of the far right "squeaky wheels" are so far right, they see even the moderate right as being "far left" because, well, it's loooong way back from where they are now.
Seriously, think about just how far right you are if you think ALL leftists are "far left". Step back, take stock and think for a moment. Imagine a rainbow[*], ie a spectrum. If that doesn't affect your outlook on people in general instead of putting everyone into an "extremist" position in your mind, then you may be beyond saving.
* No! A real rainbow. Not some flag that may or may not trigger some people.
Trump has forced ByteDance to sell TikTok to his tech / media cronies, including Murdoch and Ellison. The chances of it immediately being used to flood the market with pro-MAGA / Xtian Fundamentalist and anti-Democrat / Liberal videos are somewhere around 99.9999-recurring %. Yeah, ByteDance retains a minority stake. So what?
Trump did not do this, Congress did, and Biden signed it!
Trump tried to make this work and keep TokTok working in the US. The alternative was a complete ban!
Claw yourself out of your echo chamber for Christ's sake!
Trump also called for it to be banned. He was one of the leading proponents of it being banned. Biden agreed that TikTok was a problem and so created the EO giving quite some time to sort out a deal. They kept delaying, hoping things would change and they could outlast Bidens presidency because they knew by then that Trump had switched sides because he found he could use it to his advantage. Then, when the time ran out on TokTok, he extended the grace period multiple times so HE could "make a deal" that would benefit him.
For your consideration, Trump's full frontal assault on freedom of speech in the broadcast/streaming medias because he got his feelings hurt by comedians making fun of him. How could they resist such an easy target of ridicule? Why stop there? And while your at it have military personnel roam the streets looking for people that look different or they don't like what they are saying and "lock them up". Sounds a lot like Taliban "moral police" tactics to me. Of course they could just be doing military training on the American public like ayatollah Trump wants them to. And yes he really did say he wanted them to in front of every military commanding officer yesterday. And if they didn't like what he was saying they could leave and he threatened their continuing service if they did. All the while kissing up to the radical evangelical (white) Christian nationalist and pretending to be, poorly, one of them.
Seriously? Apparently, you have no idea what went on during the Biden regime!
The FCC has every right to regulate the public airwaves, that is written in the law! The FCC has no authority over cable/streaming and has never said it did!
The Kimmel situation had nothing to do with Trump, it was the affiliates who pressed the issue, and THEY still won't broadcast his show!
We are only arresting people who have violated out law by entering the country illegally! The LAWS passed by congress!
You are the one living in a closed echo chamber full of ridiculous absurdities!
"The Kimmel situation had nothing to do with Trump, it was the affiliates who pressed the issue, and THEY still won't broadcast his show!"
Only AFTER Trump threatened them, in public, over their licenses and the Disney deal awaiting FCC approval.
"We are only arresting people who have violated out law by entering the country illegally!"
There are many documented cases of US citizens being arrested in the "sweeps" too.
But then, I'm not in the US, so maybe seeing a more unfiltered view of the news and goings on in the USA. Maybe the news you see is more "friendly" to the current administration. After all, Trump has said he will "go after" any and all who are not in favour of "the goals of the administration". He has said many times, in many ways, in relation to each of federal, state and city governments as well as various players in the commercial world. And it gets very, very personal if someone says "bad" things about Trump.
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America controls the root domain servers, AND most of the major communications companies intertwined are American.
Before the Trump regime falls, he'll shut down the Internet to try to protect himself. I hope everyone is ready to deploy alternate domain servers and route around their sabotage.
You grow up (evolve)... this is a real concern. The Bush admin set up an Internet kill switch and the authority to use it. They can shut down the root servers and order American communications companies to shut off their pipes.
Employ your favourite search engine and verify it yourself (it's not my job to educate troglodytes)
... and by the way, I'm not in the U.K. whom I would also criticize, I'm in Canada. You know, those people up north that used to be your friends.
I think there is merit in that idea. If UK/EU actually starts WW3 we will find out because if it's a) conventional and b) real then the first target will be communications infrastructure. It'll be dig for Britain again because all that supermarket food will be in short supply. We'll have to pull mad Ed Milliband's solar farms down, cancel IHT on farms and support farming again. Or will we ... nah if Starmer's still in power we'll starve. If nuclear, well there won't be many left alive after a few months.
