Internet Banned in Afghanistan

From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@extropy.org)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 13:03:42 MDT

This is very disturbing, but it was probably bound to happen at some point.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010713/wr/tech_afghan_internet_dc.html

Apparently they have decided to ban internet use not because it is
inherently bad, but because they don't like the bad "stuff" available on it.

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E. Shaun Russell Operations Officer, Extropy Institute
e_shaun@extropy.org http://www.extropy.org
                                       COO and Director, Kryos Biomedical
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