Afghanistan Hit By Nationwide Internet Blackout As Taliban Cuts Fiber Optic Cables (bbc.com)
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- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/09/29/2059245/afghanistan-hit-by-nationwide-internet-blackout-as-taliban-cuts-fiber-optic-cables
- Source link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo
> Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have imposed numerous restrictions in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. Flights from Kabul airport have also been disrupted, according to reports. Several people in Kabul have told the BBC that their fibre-optic internet stopped working towards the end of the working day, around17:00 local time (12:30 GMT). Because of this, it is understood many people will not notice the impact until Tuesday morning, when banking services and other businesses are due to resume. [...]
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> The Taliban earlier said an alternative route for internet access would be created, without giving any details. Business leaders at the time warned that if the internet ban continued their activities would be seriously hit. Hamid Haidari, former editor-in-chief of Afghan news channel 1TV, said after the shutdown that "loneliness enveloped the entire country." "Afghanistan has now officially taken first place in the competition with North Korea for [internet] disconnection" he [3]said on X.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo
[2] https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/115288230006300457
[3] https://x.com/Hamidhaideri/status/1972678558326673857
So somebody finally did something to protect... (Score:1)
... the children from the Internet? Where I live, a lot of people are calling for such policies, and care about adverse side effects about as little as the Taliban appear to care about those.
At least researchers now can collect a second country-sized data point in the "no Internet access"-group of their studies on the effects of online activities.
Re:So somebody finally did something to protect... (Score:5, Insightful)
> "So somebody finally did something to protect the children from the Internet? Where I live, a lot of people are calling for such policies"
Parents already have that power. DO NOT GIVE CHILDREN UNRESTRICTED DEVICES THAT CAN ACCESS THE INTERNET. Keep your other devices password-protected/locked. Done. There is this word called "NO."
But oh, that would mean they couldn't try to shift the responsibility and blame to someone else or to "society". They might actually have to be parents instead of trying to destroy the Internet for adults. Sorry, I have little patience for this anymore.
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The mental gymnastics you go through to consistently place the blame on one party while making the other party look like innocent people is simply amazing.
Not American I see (Score:2, Insightful)
I get it you don't understand our politics.
So we basically have two parties here. One is openly fascistic that's the Republicans and the other are milk toast administrators.
From the outside where you're at it can seem like the Democrats are the villain because they aren't stopping the fascists.
This is a human animal response. Basically if you're getting the shit kicked out of you and it feels like somebody's just standing there watching then you don't usually get angry at the guy kicking the shi
Radical Islam is the snake hiding in the grass. (Score:1, Offtopic)
Radical Islam is the snake hiding in the grass. Moderate Islam is the grass hiding the snake. NYC Mayorial candidate Mamdani is an evil traitor to India+USA's democratic+pluralistic societies. NYC Mayorial candidate Mamdani is a viper in human clothing, he celebrated the terrorist attacks by Islamic terror rogue nation Pakistan/Pukistan against freedom loving dharmic/democratic/Hindu India and also the 911 attacks against the USA.
Moreover the Barbaric Islamic invader to India ShahJahan who hired Hindu l
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yep, that's them!
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Yeah. What about it?
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i wonder if this has really to do with morality or rather with meddling. the formerly most powerful army in the world has just said it wants "its" bagram air base back ...
Re:Afghanistan ? (Score:4)
The US achieved its objective of "retrieving" Bin Laden. Putting a decent government in Afghanistan was a secondary objective of the US. Bush clearly told the Taliban before the invasion that if they gave us Bin Laden, they could avert the invasion. "Just hand him over." Afghanistan got invaded only because we wanted to prevent Afghanistan from being a safe haven for international terrorists who target the US. That objective is achieved. The Taliban would think twice or three times before letting someone the US wants hide there. So who really lost? Afghanistan lost. There are shitty government around the world, we don't go rescuing their peoples. We could have defeated the Taliban permanently if that was the objective and we didn't care about civilian lives lost. We didn't go on a full on war footing, like we did in WW2.
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That's exactly what happens when you try to control a country where a good proportion of the population are against you, while you're trying to protect civilians.
You end up with asymmetric warfare where the insurgents hide amongst the civilian population, and no matter how strong your military is you will never be able to eliminate them all.
Traditionally occupying militaries would have taken a brutal approach - systematically execute civilians until the attacks stop. It's pretty much the only way that works
Taliban is losing its grip (Score:2)
This blackout is because the NRF is annoying them.
too soon? (Score:2)
I for one welcome our new Talibangelical overlords.
There's always Starlink (Score:5, Informative)
Elon Musk saves the day again. Let that sink in.
Sorry folks I'm in a bad mood.
Yay Islam! (Score:1)
ReligiÃn of peace right there LOLZ
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I'm surprised they even have fiber in Afghanistan.
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Really? After the billions of rubles and dollars worth of weapons left behind, i think fiber networking was installed there a while ago..
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> Really? After the billions of rubles and dollars worth of weapons left behind, i think fiber networking was installed there a while ago..
You misspelled trillions. Roughly 2.3$ trillion dollars is the current estimate of money spent on the War on Terror (tm) just in Afghanistan. America could have been debt free, but Bush Jr. left the America in a seemingly inescapable debt death spiral.
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Fiber is what's used to connect internet exchanges together, even if the last mile is dial-up or DSL. So, they simply severed the fibre at the border point.
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The whole planet has been wired up with fiber since the late 1990s, even the island of St Helena (google it) has fiber now.
Re:There's always Starlink (Score:4, Informative)
Starlink doesn't work in Afghanistan, you can see for yourself here: [1]https://www.starlink.com/map [starlink.com]
But I predict a black market for truly global satellite internet terminals (such as Inmarsat terminals), preloaded with a good amount of prepaid credits of course.
[1] https://www.starlink.com/map