Afghanistan: Taliban order the ban of TikTok and the video game PUBG

The interim government of the Taliban ordered this Thursday the prohibition of the popular Chinese social network TikTok and the video game Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) for “deceiving” young Afghans.

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“The Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies must block the game PUBG and the app TikTokwho mislead the young generation,” Taliban deputy government spokesman Enamullah Samangani said on Twitter after a cabinet meeting.

The fundamentalists also decided to extend restrictions on television networks “to prevent the publication of immoral programmes”.

This measure would be added to the prohibition of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice of fiction programs in which actresses appear or of content from international networks.

Since they came to power on August 15 and despite their promises of change with respect to their first regime between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban have prohibited adolescent girls from receiving an education, have limited the movement of women and have segregated the spaces public hearings by sex, among other measures, in the name of their rigid interpretation of Islam.

The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was one of the most feared institutions in the first Taliban government, remembered for its harsh measures that confined women to the home, prohibited the playing of music, and harshly punished anyone. what is considered outside of Islamic law.

The ban on TikTok or PUBG, however, is not limited to Afghanistan.

India blocked some 120 Chinese mobile apps, including the popular video game, in September 2020, months after banning TikTokin a context of border tension.

Pakistan has intermittently banned the Chinese social network for spreading suspected obscene content, and former US President Donald Trump has also tried unsuccessfully to block it. TikTok.

Source: Elcomercio

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