Taliban block 23 million websites in Afghanistan

Fri, 26 August 2022

08:44

The interim government of Afghanistan, led by the Taliban, has blocked more than 23 million websites for displaying what it considers immoral content over the year since the Taliban took power in the country, Najibullah Haqqani, the minister of communications in the Taliban administration, said on Thursday.

"We have blocked 23.4 million websites. They are changing their pages every time. So, when you block one website another one will be active," TOLO News quoted Haqqani as saying.

Speaking at a conference, the deputy communications minister in the interim government Ahmad Masoud Latif Rai, also criticised Facebook for its reluctance to cooperate with the Taliban authorities on content moderation. -- ANI

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