The Taliban have introduced that they may ban TikTok as a result of it promotes violence regardless of their fighters sharing battlefield atrocities to unfold concern amongst their enemies on the platform.
Taliban’s ministry of telecommunication mentioned the favored app in addition to PUBG, a web based recreation, shall be banned within the nation inside weeks.
‘TikTok has been spreading immoral and non Islamic content material and movies in an Islamic nation among the many very susceptible youths of Afghanistan, and we’ve to dam it for the sake of our youths’ future,’ a Taliban official advised MailOnline.
Taliban fighters use social media to share their battlefield atrocities to unfold concern amongst their enemies
‘They’re simply devastating our younger individuals by promoting western life fashion. We live in an Islamic nation and these platforms have been spreading contents towards it,’ he mentioned.
‘Fb can be spreading similar sort of content material. Our youths are losing misplaced of time on that. It is our responsibility to care for younger individuals,’ the official mentioned.
Web suppliers had been knowledgeable that they’ve subsequent 30 days as ‘the deadline’ to ban TikTok, ministry of telecommunication mentioned in a press release.
Individuals shall be blocked from having the ability to use the favored apps within the nation.
The brand new rulers of Afghanistan introduced the choice in a gathering with the representatives of safety sectors and a consultant from the Sharia regulation enforcement administration.
It comes after latest bans on music, motion pictures and tv cleaning soap operas which noticed the Taliban destroying musical devices.
Web suppliers had been knowledgeable that they’ve subsequent 30 days as ‘the deadline’ to ban TikTok, ministry of telecommunication mentioned in a press release.
Afghanistan’s telecommunication and web service suppliers have shared the knowledge regards the ban and have been requested to observe the rules throughout the stipulated time.
It comes as Taliban fighters use social media to share their battlefield atrocities to unfold concern amongst their enemies.
A video filmed and shared on the Taliban’s social media accounts reveals a bunch of 5 blindfolded fighters who’ve their arms tied behind them earlier than they’re executed by cheering members of the Taliban.
They’ve additionally banned TV channels from airing what it deemed as ‘immoral materials’ and a few channel have even been advised that they can not international movies and reveals.
Earlier, the Taliban have mentioned that they blocked greater than 23 million web sites for displaying what they think about ‘immoral’ content material over the yr because the Taliban took energy within the nation,
‘We have now blocked 23.4 million web sites. They’re altering their pages each time. So, whenever you block one web site one other one shall be lively,’ Najibullah Haqqani, Taliban’s minister of communications mentioned in a convention final month.
Talking on the similar convention, the deputy communications minister, Ahmad Masoud Latif Rai, additionally criticised Fb for its reluctance to cooperate with the Taliban authorities on content material moderation.
After the collapse of the US-backed authorities and the withdrawal of US troops from the nation, an interim Afghan authorities led by the Taliban got here to energy on August 15 final yr.
Earlier, the Taliban have mentioned that they blocked greater than 23 million web sites for displaying what they think about ‘immoral’ content material over the yr because the Taliban took energy within the nation
For the reason that Taliban took over Afghanistan in mid-August final yr, it rolled again the rights of Afghan media shops and their functioning
The Taliban takeover triggered an financial disaster and meals shortages which have pushed the nation to the brink of a humanitarian disaster.
Hundreds of Afghans have fled the nation scared of the Taliban, widespread violation of human rights, and the deprivation of girls and women of their freedoms.
For the reason that Taliban took over Afghanistan in mid-August final yr, it rolled again the rights of Afghan media shops and their functioning.
In keeping with the United Nations, there have been vital adjustments within the nation’s media panorama, together with the closure of greater than half of the free media, a ban on a number of channels and web sites and rising work restrictions, violence, and threats towards journalists.
After the collapse of the US-backed authorities and the withdrawal of US troops from the nation, an interim Afghan authorities led by the Taliban got here to energy on August 15 final yr
Taliban fighters have a good time one yr since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022
In keeping with worldwide media freedom organisations greater than 300 Afghan information shops have closed because the Taliban took over Kabul once more in the summertime of 2021.
Over a thousand reporters have misplaced their jobs, and lots of of them have left the nation, fearing the Taliban’s revenge as the brand new rulers of Afghanistan had labelled journalists as their ‘enemy.’
Afghanistan’s thriving media sector, which had been one of many largest achievements of 20 years of worldwide group presence, is now falling.
They banned ladies from showing in dramas and ordered channels to cease broadcasting international television dramas, together with these produced in Islamic international locations like Iran.
In Might Afghanistan’s supreme chief Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a diktat for girls to cowl up totally in public, together with their faces, ideally with the normal burqa.
The dreaded Ministry for Promotion of Advantage and Prevention of Vice ordered ladies tv presenters to observe swimsuit.