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Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law (www.voanews.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by annHowe@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26423177

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

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[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

lmao, try stop me

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 21 points 16 hours ago

The title is (kind of) clickbait. It's actually just been ruled that using a VPN to access blocked content is against Sharia law. But fuck if that headline isn't funny

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 42 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I love when a God type peeks in from heaven, from time to time, performs a technology review with his main human peeps, and together they conclude a VPN is probably bad for the community / personal development / a deeper connection with said God etc.

So cool. Praise be heavenly technical reviews.

[–] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 17 hours ago

Thou shalt not browse The Internet

[–] magoosh@feddit.nl 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Guess any Pakistani corporation with some IT are breaking the law then

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 19 hours ago

i doubt this law applies to beautiful legal people, just shiti organics...

that's how these regimes operate lol

[–] pagenotfound@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago

I can’t believe this wasn’t an Onion piece. Lol.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If jaweh wanted VPN, then why isn't it in the koran?

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The Quran prohibits spying and other violations of privacy.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Please forward this information to the pakistani religious body. They might've received a faulty copy of the document.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

Read the article beyond the headline

[+] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Pedophilia is pretty common in organized religion, so probably not much. It’s in both the Quran and Bible. Idk about the Hindu faith, but Gandhi used to sleep nude with young girls, including family members, to test whether they got him hard or not, and he’s still adored by millions.

[+] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Of course. Otherwise you're racist, islamophobic, transphobic (you know, because of the trans-fat, i guess), republican, democrat, fascist, communist, ignorant, insensitive, probably a nazzi, certainly satanic, a lawyer, a doctor and a politician. Add to the list a conspiracy theorist and a nerd. But if you tolerate it, well, you're tolerant, a great human being and an all-together great human being.

Fuck me, I need the to get the fuck off of this piece of shit planet.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, well if you don’t, people say you’re a bad person. Despite religion being the driving force behind most of the evil that’s plagued the human race, we give it a free pass because most people are too scared to live life without the promise of something coming after.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I am a (very weird) christian, and I approve this message.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

On the other hand, they've blocked Xitter in Pakistan.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago