Watchdog Says Taliban Restricting Social Media In Afghanistan Days After Internet Blackout

Watchdog Says Taliban Restricting Social Media In Afghanistan Days After Internet Blackout

Internet watchdog NetBlocks has confirmed reports from inside Afghanistan that several major social media sites have been "intentionally restricted."

The Taliban’s internet blackout was a warning - The Iola Register

Women’s basic rights in Afghanistan took another brutal blow I was talking to a teenage girl in Afghanistan last week. She was on her laptop and I was on mine. She was explaining to me how she came to understand that women don’t have the temperament to be politicians. And then she vanished. One moment she was there. The next moment — gone. She hadn’t shut off her computer. She had lost internet access, just like everyone else in Afghanistan. Ten…