[42631] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Afghanistan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hallgren, Michael)
Tue Sep 18 14:56:19 2001
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From: "Hallgren, Michael" <michael.hallgren@Teleglobe.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:59:47 +0100
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> At 11:43 AM 9/18/2001 -0500, Basil Kruglov wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:23:58PM -0400, Smith, Rick wrote:
> >> Has anyone started to deny all traffic to/from Afghanistan ?
> >>
> >> Wouldn't that be worth it ?
> >>
> >> Or did I miss that post?
> >
> >Do they even have Internet?
> >
> >http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
> >Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA
>
> It is my understanding that the free flow of ideas and
> discussion of same
> is detrimental to an extremist or dictatorial government.
> Such governments
> rarely (ever?) survive open discussions and flow of ideas.
>
> Either that, or their beliefs are so strongly held, so pure,
> so obvious
> that other ideas / beliefs need not even be examined.
> Apparently the "boys
> and girls" are simply told what to believe, and the reasoning
> behind or, or
> counter arguments to it, are irrelevant. No discussion or
> substantiation
> is necessary, "people with clue" told them so.
>
>
> I vote for #1. What does the rest of NANOG think?
>
#1, (provided the open minded people over there do enjoy access to
such a free flow of information, something I can't tell from my
horizon.)
mh
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> >-Basil
>
> --
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
