At 11:43 AM 9/18/2001 -0500, Basil Kruglov wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:23:58PM -0400, Smith, Rick wrote:
Has anyone started to deny all traffic to/from Afghanistan ?
Wouldn't that be worth it ?
Or did I miss that post?
Do they even have Internet?
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA
It is my understanding that the free flow of ideas and discussion of same is detrimental to an extremist or dictatorial government. Such governments rarely (ever?) survive open discussions and flow of ideas.
Either that, or their beliefs are so strongly held, so pure, so obvious that other ideas / beliefs need not even be examined. Apparently the "boys and girls" are simply told what to believe, and the reasoning behind or, or counter arguments to it, are irrelevant. No discussion or substantiation is necessary, "people with clue" told them so.
I vote for #1. What does the rest of NANOG think?
#1, (provided the open minded people over there do enjoy access to such a free flow of information, something I can't tell from my horizon.) mh
-Basil
-- TTFN, patrick
"Hallgren, Michael" wrote:
At 11:43 AM 9/18/2001 -0500, Basil Kruglov wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:23:58PM -0400, Smith, Rick wrote:
Has anyone started to deny all traffic to/from Afghanistan ?
Wouldn't that be worth it ?
Or did I miss that post?
Do they even have Internet?
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA
It is my understanding that the free flow of ideas and discussion of same is detrimental to an extremist or dictatorial government. Such governments rarely (ever?) survive open discussions and flow of ideas.
Either that, or their beliefs are so strongly held, so pure, so obvious that other ideas / beliefs need not even be examined. Apparently the "boys and girls" are simply told what to believe, and the reasoning behind or, or counter arguments to it, are irrelevant. No discussion or substantiation is necessary, "people with clue" told them so.
I vote for #1. What does the rest of NANOG think?
#1, (provided the open minded people over there do enjoy access to such a free flow of information, something I can't tell from my horizon.)
mh
-Basil
-- TTFN, patrick
I believe that the Taliban has banned the Internet and much else besides. However, the Internet is important for the resistance. This site is pretty amazing : http://www.rawa.org/ It is the web site of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). They have discovered that the mandatory chadors enable them to carry around video cameras pretty much at will. WARNING - there are very shocking pictures on this web site. It is not for the weak stomached. Regards Marshall Eubanks T.M. Eubanks Multicast Technologies, Inc 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609 e-mail : tme@multicasttech.com http://www.on-the-i.com
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