[rdl]

The goal is not to get blown up; the government isn't going to try to censor. Plus, the government there isn't monolithic; aside from the NDS, I believe the provincial/city government is much more relevant than the national government, and the FabFi people have done a pretty good job of getting "in" with the local government.

(I've stayed at the guesthouse and climbed the water tower at the hospital where the antennas are installed.)

[ThaddeusQuay]

"... the government isn't going to try to censor."

Um, what? Our own government censors. They unilaterally take away domain names, without due process or even notice, and they create laws which make certain communication, if done in public, illegal, which leads to these crazy Terms of Service that just about every social website has today.

So, GhanStan is full of poppy fields, but the government won't attempt to censor me should I try to cause any kind of trouble with those through online postings? GhanStan is so stable that the hospital should not ever have to worry about its FabFi connection being physically taken down?

[rdl]

Er, I should have edited that.

The Afghan central government would censor, but has a lot of other issues to worry about, and this is about last on their list.

The local government could try to censor (and, I think has objected to porn and other stuff in the past, which got filtered); the people running it have been proactive in working with the local government.

Not getting blown up is the primary concern here, not government censorship, though. If Afghanistan gets to the point where government censorship is their biggest problem, that's success.