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Afghanistan Clarifies It Will Not Block WhatsApp, Telegram (reuters.com)
The Afghan government will not block the instant messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram, a spokesman told news agency Reuters on Monday, following days of controversy after reports the services would be suspended. From a report: "Government of Afghanistan isn't going to ban any social media platforms. WhatsApp and Telegram to continue operating in Afghanistan," Javid Faisal, deputy spokesman to government Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah wrote on Twitter. The row over instant messaging services began after a letter from Afghanistan's telecoms regulator to Internet service providers telling them to block the services "without delay" was circulated on social media platforms last week.
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Oh boy, the handful of people in Afghanistan with internet access are sure concerned about this!
...uh, flowing!
n/t
This is good news for linux nerds like me. When we dug out our old Commodores after the Taliban was vanquished, we have all been pining for the continuation of WhatsApp and Telegram.
Please tell Jon Katz hi, and we'll see him on WhatsApp!
Yours,
Junis
Who cares what some third-world shithole filled with bearded prehistoric cavemen will do or not do with the internet ?
I don't give a fuck about what technology they may or may not have in their hands. They may have cars, planes, optic-fiber internet, cellphones, etc. Deep down inside, mentally and culturally, they are just a bunch of primitive neanderthals completely entrenched in their supersticious crap.
No, cultures are NOT all equivalent. There are the primitives, and there are the evolved human beings. And when the former keep acting like the proverbial ball-and-chain, when not downrigh killing, the latter, there comes a point where cultural genocide is not only morally acceptable, it is necessary, necessary for the continuation of human evolution and the very survival of humanity.
A good start would be the eradication of ALL Abrahamic religions.
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There is no 'government' in Afghanistan is the sense any of you reading this comprehend the term. There is a bunch of West/Saudi/Israeli appointed goons who do the bidding of the Deep State and wahhabi despots. The 'laws' of Afghanistan, supported by the UN, are the worst form of medieval sharia law- but the 'elite' who serve the West there live in special enclaves where sharia law doesn't apply.
Meanwhile Assad's government was elected into power by the people of Syria- is secular, supports women's rights and gives freedom for people to follow any religion. But the filthy scum that run Slashdot call the government of Syria a 'regime', just like the BBC, CNN and other Deep State outlets do in unison.
The apologists for Slashdot would have you believe the use of the SAME demonising terms is just a giant coincidence- the Salshdot, the BBC etc all, by their own devices, come to the same propaganda ideas independently. The odds of that are literally trillions to one, but then again it is assumed the average Clinton/Blair/Obama/May voter has the IQ of a rotting potato.
The regimes of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel are depraved, corrupt, racist and evil beyond Human comprehension. But each of these regimes is a direct creation of the West. Each of these four nations has leaders who use religion like a psychopath uses a kichen knife. Each of these nations has leaders lauded in the press of the West.
When the filth that runs Slashdot promotes a laughable tech story like this one about Afghanistan- that only applies to the tens of thousands living in 'green zone' UN enclaves in a few major cities there- is is meant to imply something about the state of life in Afghanistan that is a million miles away from the truth.
For those of you that are so thick you dribble "but how can I know the truth", use the 'scientific' method. Most 'poor' people use computers and the net via their phones. And such people post videos online. Thus you can measure the true spread of tech by noticing which nations- even if seemingly poor- have a significant video presence online. Nations like Afghanistan are 'black holes' when it comes to the luminosity of visible net use. This serves the Yanks well, since the American butchers haven't stopped mass murdering ordinary Afghans since the invasion after 911. The vile yanks want video of their atrocities hitting the net like they want a hole in the head. Trying to spread video of US war crimes in Afghanistan carries an automatic death sentence. Obama, and now Trump, don't want ordinary Afghans to have access to the net.
Yes, following the American example.
Or maybe you should look up models of human organization, based on unknown-to-you human things like trust, instead of an impossible delusion called by the oxymoron "representative democracy". :P)
(Hint: They have a society of a trust-based hierachy of actual representatives. No fake democracy delusion bullshit needed. And I say that as somebody who likes actual democracies. But only in countries not made up of morons. So none.