Facebook is blocked in Afghanistan

According to the regional office of Tasnim News Agency, “Najibullah Haqqani, the Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology of the Taliban announced the completion of the process of blocking or limiting the social network “Facebook” in Afghanistan and acknowledged that the youth currently need education and should not be engaged in social networks.

Haqqani told “Taloo News”: “Our youth and yours are in a situation where they are weak from a scientific point of view, and therefore wasting time and spending money with these things is for the benefit of the company and for the loss.” It is the nation, for this issue a policy has been adopted to limit and block Facebook”. He clarified: Telecommunication networks in the previous government of Afghanistan used to pay money to the Taliban to ensure the security of sites. Haqqani added: We provide security and supply in those areas We were providing services for telecommunication networks, so I don’t know what services the previous system collected taxes for. In order to prevent cybercrimes in Afghanistan, research has been conducted and it has been decided to establish an institution in this field. There is a security and educational institution and it is going to be established for several other ministries in the near future. and have started collecting their details; After that we can connect all systems.

Taliban Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology emphasized: No one has the right to violate people’s privacy and if needed, only the security institutions are allowed to access their places only to prevent anti-security cases and to pursue criminals.

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