Thank the Biden administration for overthrowing Imran Khan in Pakistan to install this dictatorial regime.
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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Took em this long?
Again, just describing my understanding of reality, sorry it triggered you.
Friendly reminder that VOA, aka Voice of America, is a subsidiary of the US Agency for Global Media. It was established to convince people in the Soviet sphere that the US was better in every way. It continues that mission with America's allies and enemies today.
The process of opening up a country's media space is integral to getting those State department messages in there.
and this is a bad thing how, convincing people in the Soviet sphere that the US is better in every way???
Friendly reminder that if your ideas aren't complete shit then they can withstand some challenge.
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God would never use VPN, he has nothing to hide.
Muhammad on the other hand, doesn't want you to know that he looks exactly like the letter "f"
Except his genitals, how do you know God isn't a woman?
The big religions have omnipotent or near omnipotent gods that can appear in any form or gender. One of their powers is usually shapeshifting. So they are whaterver sex they want, sometimes even none, like for example the christian god appeared as pillars of cloud or fire.
Those were just his jets. The pillars were fire in the night and clowd during the day.
Cause he fucks everyone
Read the book. Be it the bible, tora or koran. You dont have to read it very much, it's in the beginning somewhere.
Is God not powerful enough to switch sexes?
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But he works in mysterious ways.
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someone should point out to them that a vpn is the technological equivalent of the burqa.
either ban both, or allow both.
Not like that
The Council of Islamic Ideology said the technology was being used in Pakistan to access content prohibited according to Islamic principles or forbidden by law, including “[...]websites that spread anarchy [...].”
So they admit it's not (only) about morals, but also (or mostly) about their position of power not being threatened.
BTW: By blocking access to the internet, they stop people from following the order in the Quoran which states that people should educate themselves.
A Mastodon user I follow recently posted that there are 3 types of laws. I think that is an interesting framework.
What Pakistan is doing here is definitely a "power law".
It’s almost as if they would tailor their religious doctrine to suit their own needs. Who could have imagined such a thing could happen.
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Encryption is totally and completely haram
Which is super fucking ironic:
David Kahn notes in The Codebreakers that modern cryptology originated among the Arabs, the first people to systematically document cryptanalytic methods.[15] Al-Khalil (717–786) wrote the Book of Cryptographic Messages, which contains the first use of permutations and combinations to list all possible Arabic words with and without vowels.[16]
The invention of the frequency analysis technique for breaking monoalphabetic substitution ciphers, by Al-Kindi, an Arab mathematician,[17][18] sometime around AD 800, proved to be the single most significant cryptanalytic advance until World War II. Al-Kindi wrote a book on cryptography entitled Risalah fi Istikhraj al-Mu'amma (Manuscript for the Deciphering Cryptographic Messages), in which he described the first cryptanalytic techniques, including some for polyalphabetic ciphers, cipher classification, Arabic phonetics and syntax, and most importantly, gave the first descriptions on frequency analysis.[19] He also covered methods of encipherments, cryptanalysis of certain encipherments, and statistical analysis of letters and letter combinations in Arabic.[20][21] An important contribution of Ibn Adlan (1187–1268) was on sample size for use of frequency analysis.[16]
Ahmad al-Qalqashandi (AD 1355–1418) wrote the Subh al-a 'sha, a 14-volume encyclopedia which included a section on cryptology. This information was attributed to Ibn al-Durayhim who lived from AD 1312 to 1361, but whose writings on cryptography have been lost. The list of ciphers in this work included both substitution and transposition, and for the first time, a polyalphabetic cipher[23] with multiple substitutions for each plaintext letter (later called homophonic substitution). Also traced to Ibn al-Durayhim is an exposition on and a worked example of cryptanalysis, including the use of tables of letter frequencies and sets of letters which cannot occur together in one word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cryptography#Medieval_cryptography
But then Pakistanis aren't Arabs....
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"It is not enough that Allah knows everything you do. We must also know."
"That sounds like blasphemy to me."
"Uh..."
"VPNs are haram but tor browser truly is the work of Allah himself"
Some guy, maybe.