Afghanistan cuts internet

[quintessentone]

Bloody Hippies.


Get a shower, hippy!
  

[BeTheGoddess]

Bloody Hippies.


Get a shower, hippy!
  

Fix my hot water system.

[MichSwampbuck]

They can create a meshnet and share what they have and any connections they can find and use. This is the method used in many areas during an internet blackout due to political reasons. A grassroots homegrown internet, basically.

[DBCowboy]

I am putting this in the travel section, first because it is affecting travel:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo

Now obviously this is the Taliban doing Taliban things. Well, at least I think it's of their own choosing. But part of me got a tiny bit wistful at the thought of no internet. As a holiday. Not like I'd choose Afghanistan for that though. But I used to take summer holiday in at a retreat that was civilized in that it had catered meals, flushing toilets, and a dress code that discouraged the slovenly, but did not have cell phone or Internet access. If anyone wanted to get in touch with you, they would have to telephone the main office land-line, and they would take a message and leave a note at your table, which you could then happily ignore. But in recent years they've had to recant that policy, and now there is, alas, Wifi and 5G access. It's depressing, in a way. So I am wondering if there is any place left "off the grid" that isn't premised on sharia and sand, where one can party like it's 1880 so to speak? I do not want to "rough it", that can chafe or make one sweat, but I would like to escape modernity, at least for a little while.

They don't do free speech there.

[Tecate]

No one had to bomb Afghanistan back into the stone age, just wait for the Taliban to take them back there on their own time.

Meh, if the people who don’t want to live like that, then they will have to find a way to get out, lots of East German people did during the Soviet era….


Tecate

[BeTheGoddess]

You want to know how they did it?, they picked up the phone in the other room.