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Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance
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this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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Damn! Using .af for a LGBT+ site is insane! The country could have redirected the domain to their own servers and started learning the personal details of those on the site who I imagine wouldn’t be terribly thrilled having an anti-LGBT+ government learn their personal information (namely information not displayed publicly). Specifically, they could put their own servers in front of the domain so they can decrypt it, then forward the traffic on to the legitimate servers, allowing them to get login information and any other data which the user sends or receives.
Would they care enough to do all of this, though?
The Taliban blew up huge statues of Buddhas that had stood for 1500 years because they'd suddenly decided they were blasphemous. They would absolutely hijack a queer forum so they could hunt down any user who might be in Afghanistan