Taliban’s two-day nationwide internet blackout plunges Afghanistan into isolation, deepens economic crisis
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For two days, life stopped in Afghanistan when the Taliban authorities cut off the internet and the telephone, taking 48 million Afghans from the courts.(Source: AFP). If for weeks they had been trying to restrict, on the order of the supreme Taliban leader, the emir Hibatullah Akhundzada, the fiber optic connections of several provinces to prevent the "diffusion of vice", nobody in Kabul imagined, on Monday, a national cut. On the heights of th…
2025/40 the foreign world the Taliban turn off the Internet in Afghanistan The Taliban have shut down the Internet throughout Afghanistan. What is officially described as "protection of morality" is in fact a planned attack on the remains of female auto-nomy and mental self-determination. Peter Laskowski
The Taliban leader and his close circle in Kandahar consider internet services and citizens’ free access to cyberspace to be a serious threat to the survival of the “Islamic Emirate”. For this reason, they are trying to reduce the speed of the internet or even block citizens’ access altogether. Another concern of the Taliban leader, who lives in secrecy and isolation, is the fear of being intercepted by new technologies. He does not want the sce…
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