High Speed Internet is Unethical & Immoral

[Teallaura]

Wasn't that the exact same look Mr. Ferguson gave you after you hotwired his Ford Fairlane and drove it through his hedge and into the ditch?

No, you're thinking of the time he hotwired Mr Ferguson's Ford Pinto (what was it with him and Fords, anyway?) and ran over Mr. Ferguson's foot.

[rogue06]

EGGzackly!

Wasn't that the exact same look Mr. Ferguson gave you after you hotwired his Ford Fairlane and drove it through his hedge and into the ditch?

[Cow Poke]

EGGzackly!

[Sparko]

I think we should sell Iran old 1200 baud modems.

And biplanes. After all if high speed internet is a sin, then so would be jet fighters.

[rogue06]

Suddenlink was just here and upped my download speed to 12 Mbps, and my upload speed to upteenzillion nanoquiches! I'm a heretic?

[Cow Poke]

Suddenlink was just here and upped my download speed to 12 Mbps, and my upload speed to upteenzillion nanoquiches! I'm a heretic?

[Teallaura]

[rogue06]

That is what Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi has decreed

Source: Iranian Ayatollah: 3G internet is immoral and inhumane

An Iranian Grand Ayatollah has said high speed internet is unethical and contrary to humanitarian principles, Iranian media sources reported on Tuesday.

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, a prominent Shia scholar, made the remarks in response to a question put to him by cyber activists, via his website.

Although Iran has the highest total number of internet users in the Middle East, its average data speed is about a tenth of the global average.

However, Shirazi said 3G — third generation mobile communications technology — and broadband internet were morally wrong, and that there needed to be standards to prevent users from dangers such as “immoral and inhumane” videos and photos, rumors, and espionage.

The Grand Ayatollah’s comments come after one of Iran’s largest mobile operators, Irancell, announced this month that it would test 3G services to universities and government offices, and after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said earlier this year that Iran should upgrade its internet services.

In addition to his conservative stance on the internet, the Grand Ayatollah, whose ancestors were Jewish converts to Shi'ite Islam, has also dubbed the Holocaust “nothing but superstition.”



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I wonder if he'll be issuing a fatwa on the issue like he has forbidding women from attending soccer games in stadiums and smoking. And while the above news report is from the Jerusalem Post so some Muslims might dismiss it as biased against them, Ya Libnan (which is based in Beirut, Lebanon and founded immediately after the assassination of the Muslim Prime Minister Rafik Hariri) has also covered the story and reported essentially the same thing and it's what's on Shirazi's own website (I wonder if he uses dial up).