The Taliban have said that they would outlaw TikTok because it glorifies violence, despite the fact that their warriors post images of atrocities committed on the battlefield to terrorise their foes.
According to the Taliban’s ministry of communications, the government will soon outlaw popular apps and online games like PUBG.
According to a Taliban official speaking to MialOnline, “TikTok has been spreading immoral and non-Islamic information and films in an Islamic among the most vulnerable youngsters of Afghanistan, and we have to restrict it for the sake of our youths’ future.”
They are just harming our young people by promoting a western way of life. We are in an Islamic nation, and these platforms have published stuff that is hostile to it,’ he said.
Facebook is disseminating similar stuff as well. Our youngsters waste a great deal of time doing that. The official stated, “Taking care of young people is our responsibility.
Internet service providers have been told that the next 30 days are “the deadline” for banning TikTok, according to a statement from the ministry of telecoms.
The usage of the widespread applications in the nation will be prohibited.
In a meeting with members from the security and Sharia law enforcement administrations, Afghanistan’s new leaders made the announcement.
It follows previous restrictions on music, movies, and TV soap operas, during which the Taliban demolished musical instruments.
Telecommunication and internet service providers in Afghanistan have been informed about the restriction and requested to abide by the rules within the allotted period.
It happens when Taliban militants utilise social media to broadcast the crimes they commit on the battlefield in order to terrorise their adversaries.
Five fighters are seen in a video that was captured and posted on the Taliban’s social media accounts being killed in front of applauding Taliban comrades as they are blindfolded and have their wrists tied behind them.
Additionally, they have forbidden TV networks from displaying what they believed to be “immoral content,” and some stations have even received orders not to run international movies and series.
In the past, the Taliban have claimed that in the year after they seized control in the nation, they had banned more than 23 million websites for publishing what they see as “immoral” material.
“23.4 million websites have been blacklisted by us.” Every time, they switch their pages.
The Taliban’s minister of communications, Najibullah Haqqani, said at a conference last month that when you shut one website, another one will be live.
Speaking at the same conference, Ahmad Masoud Latif Rai, the deputy communications minister, criticised Facebook for refusing to work with the Taliban government on content filtering.
On August 15 of last year, an interim Afghan government headed by the Taliban took office after the fall of the US-backed government and the departure of US soldiers from the nation.
The nation is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster as a result of the economic crises and food shortages brought on by the Taliban takeover.
Thousands of Afghans have left the nation because of fear of the Taliban, severe human rights abuses, and the denial of freedom to women and girls.
The rights and operations of Afghan media outlets have been curtailed since the Taliban seized control of the country in the middle of August last year.
The United Nations reports that the country’s media environment has undergone major changes, including the closure of more than half of the free media, a ban on a number of channels and websites, and an increase in work restrictions, violence, and threats against journalists.
Since the Taliban retook control of Kabul in the summer of 2021, more than 300 Afghan news outlets have closed, according to international media freedom organisations.
Since the Taliban were now in power in Afghanistan, over a thousand journalists have lost their jobs and hundreds have fled the nation out of fear of their fate.
One of the major successes of the 20-year presence of the international community in Afghanistan was its robust media industry, which is currently in decline.
They enacted a prohibition on women acting in dramas and gave networks the command to cease airing international television dramas, especially those made in Islamic nations like Iran.
Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of Afghanistan, issued a directive in May ordering women to cover their whole bodies in public, including their faces, preferably with the customary burqa.
Female television hosts were instructed to follow suit by the dreaded Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.