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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Explain the last name joke?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🤣 bruv this is a propaganda for the government to crackdown opposition parties. There is no such thing as “Islamic Law against vpn”. They make up things and call it a day

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Didn't their prime minister recently use a VPN to congratulate Trump on X, which is blocked from access by the same govt?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elites do not have to follow the rules, that's the one reason to become an elite in the first place!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure. Are you asking to get an answer?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, I wanted to bring out the irony. Maybe an '‽' would have been better than the '?' I put at the end of my comment.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is plainly insane.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster has decreed to me that VPN use is totally cool and his worshipers should feel ok using them. 🍝

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That was my official religion during last census!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (27 children)

So boning 8 year olds is cool, but a VPN is a step too far?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Boning 8 year olds is tradition. Vpn is new scary tech.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Boning 8 year olds is tradition.

For whom? You?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

For the entire planet, prior to the last few hundred years. Religion agreed, because pedos are attracted to power and religious leaders were the most powerful.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Typical religion, just making up stupid shit to enforce their control over people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Pass me some apostate-o chips while I log in then!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Main use is to hit western porn sites. Just be honest and say being horny is banned.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Documenta PDF omnia custodiunt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Wait till they hear about the HA-RAM proxy..... For when your memory needs to be available now!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They also threw fatwa at Jerry (yes, that cartoon mouse) before, so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Let's use this against yallcada when they try the same.