Ponder.cat
  • Communities
  • heart
  • search
    • Login
    • Sign Up
    • Communities

    • heart
      Support Lemmy
    • search
      Search

    • Login
    • Sign Up
    annHowe@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

    Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law

    www.voanews.com

    external-link
    message-square
    47
    fedilink
    • cross-posted to:
    • privacy@lemmy.ml
    • world@quokk.au
    • world@lemmy.world
    323
    external-link

    Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law

    www.voanews.com

    annHowe@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
    message-square
    47
    fedilink
    • cross-posted to:
    • privacy@lemmy.ml
    • world@quokk.au
    • world@lemmy.world
    Critics say increased push to control online activities is to curb criticism of the Pakistani military

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28167168

    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      106
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      8 months ago

      Does the Noble Quran only refer to OpenVPN tunnels or it also covers WireGuard? What if I’m setting my own server on a halal VPS?

      • BMTea@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        24
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        8 months ago

        What they actually said is not that VPNs are banned, but using them to access blocked content is. First they mention porn, which is straightforward religiously, but then they also state that accessing blocked “disinformation” is also haram, which is gibberish and has no basis in either religious or secular morals.

      • ComradeMiao@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        21
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        8 months ago

        It depends on where your VPS physically is and the last name of the persons father hosting it.

        • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          8 months ago

          Explain the last name joke?

          • ComradeMiao@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            8 months ago

            In trying to explain my joke I think I found it may not directly apply outside of the Arabic speaking Arab world, but typically last names are important as they say who the person is the son or daughter of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_name?wprov=sfti1#Ism

            It isn’t just a lineage of last names but who your daddy is.

            If I remember correctly from my Arabic class in college some people can have even longer lineage names with multiple peoples included.

            Pakistan seems to be sort of a mix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_name?wprov=sfti1#Full_name

            I also found this random paper describing Afghani naming so I wonder if I was wrong. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=e7a649988b7aad015ea8fa972239c7fe9e6ede03

    Technology@lemmy.world

    technology@lemmy.world

    Subscribe from Remote Instance

    Create a post
    You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

    This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


    Our Rules


    1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
    2. Only tech related news or articles.
    3. Be excellent to each other!
    4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
    5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
    6. Politics threads may be removed.
    7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
    8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
    9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
    10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

    Approved Bots


    • @L4s@lemmy.world
    • @autotldr@lemmings.world
    • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
    • @wikibot@lemmy.world
    Visibility: Public
    globe

    This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

    • 3.46K users / day
    • 8.38K users / week
    • 17.5K users / month
    • 38.9K users / 6 months
    • 4 local subscribers
    • 72.5K subscribers
    • 7.48K Posts
    • 204K Comments
    • Modlog
    • mods:
    • L3s@lemmy.world
    • enu@lemmy.world
    • Technopagan@lemmy.world
    • L4sBot@lemmy.world
    • L3s@hackingne.ws
    • L4s@hackingne.ws
    • UI: unknown version
    • BE: 0.19.8
    • Modlog
    • Instances
    • Docs
    • Code
    • join-lemmy.org