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[–] 102 points 2 years 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?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    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

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  • [+] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 41 points 2 years 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?

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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. 🍝

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (27 children)

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

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

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

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