Dear Afghanistan - Starlink Will Make Your Internet Your Way

When I recently read Afghanistan's leadership has voiced extreme alarm about internet, I knew there was a reason.

Beyond that, I knew they also gain immensely by having access to technology's convenience.

All of their concerns are valid in my heart! But I live in the West. I am used to it, and though I see problems and solutions all the time it is not allowed for me to prioritize it for others - the pros and cons will here first go through politics, and there we will find answers.

The world is ours! It is Afghanistan's as much as mine! Its trajectory is worrisome for those who wish for a moral outcome as per scripture - and especially for Afghanistan!

In my country the United States, you can order things to be customized. To ask for help from Starlink would work, especially for infrastructure - installing wires or cables isn't necessary since Starlink uses satellite.

That works marvelously for Afghanistan, especially rurally.

Tell Starlink what sorts of things you want to eliminate! Ask them to show you what happens when someone searched for the eliminated selection.

You will see the information is still yours without the loss.

 

I don't get your point. Anyone can order Starlink if they have a credit card. And they do all over the world.

And just like in Afghanistan, people in rural America too can get high speed internet and be able to access content beyond their local Sinclair right wing media scape.

 

You're not wrong. What I mean to point out is Afghanistan has a priority to moral discretion that will not allow the current format of internet's networked sites.
A company like Starlink could gain immense notoriety by addressing that concern in lots of countries, or organizations, and then also peoples' homes.

Such a move would help begin to reshape our ambiguity and apathy about this into something more deliberate.

 

You can have Starlink anywhere on earth without your government's knowledge if you can get your hands on it.

I don't know why you think they're not accessing this in Afghanistan. Very likely the Afghan government uses it too for remote communication.

Likewise there are other satellites that carry Islamic programming that can be accessed as well as more limited Internet content, perhaps from Iran.

I still am not sure what THIS is that needs to be reshaped. Your posts are confusing, like you're tiptoeing around some subject that your not mentioning.

 

Spoiler: This written first, can be read last! :)

Well, let's pretend we strive to understand things - for me it's natural to try and decipher life because there are a lot of interruptions that direct my attention hitherto and henceforth. =-)

Because what takes a familiar form (a distancing at an intersection - I have divested from the majority and I should reconsider my life; to answer your question: precisely this literally at every possible interval...)

Other sources can render Afghan needs the proverbial outlier - it removes their mindset from that which is socially normal or presumably socially acceptable, and says,

"you are the extremist who wants something different".

Instead of rewarding their advancement of moral concern as continuity of Islamic normalcy; it would mean they 'have to source their weird internet' from Islamic sources, and the proverbial "West" rejects their endeavor.

As an example, today there was a news article about New York's Muslim mayoral candidate. A fanatic chased his security detail and shouted for him to denounce Sharia.

Afghanistan's move is in support of Sharia law in their scriptural and so thus rather 'conservative' domestic environment. To confine their progress is to reject their intent, which I would argue is reverent, sacred, and absolutely normal.

I do not think they should be stuck with what Iran can provide, particularly because I don't think their countries have the same brand of Islam (which would bridge a different gap and actually denote a positive, but also alienate Islam in general - they can still be devout Muslims and still also do business with Western companies like Starlink - they should have our support in virtuous ambition.)

So, why aren't I mentioning the subject plainly in an understandable way? Are I not also the one critiquing physics for obscuring the String Theory lesson with semantics?

The telecommunication would have to be allowed by the laws or the provision isn't legal - even if the satellite can reach it.

The idea here though would be to remove the barrier to their understanding. They likely don't know that Starlink or Time Warner or any internet service provider can engineer a network that would connect all the internet we have anywhere else but exclude that which Afghan's would find objectionable with their religious understanding.

 

They need only buy the Great Firewall that China sells. They can then monitor and censor anything they choose.

That wouldn't affect Starlink however. It only affects local hosting companies.

So are you saying they should or shouldn't allow Starlink?

 

No comment.

Yeah. If China offers a 'firewall' that blocks any content disapproved or forbidden for organizations, or for individuals and their homes, I suppose they can offer the same for a country or countries - simply filter content at the telecommunication level.

And with that, their internet does only good - minus the damage, minus the calculus. Only the knowledge, access, and convenience - that's a bonus and a win!