According to the Taliban, TikTok has been spreading immoral and non Islamic content and videos in an Islamic country among the very vulnerable youths of Afghanistan
By Folayemi Oladimeji
Afghanistan’s interim government led by the Taliban announced plans to completely ban TikTok in the country within a 90 day period, saying the app is “misleading” the youth of today and promotes violence.
It’s also been reported that the country will apply the same rule to the free-to-play battle royale video game, PUBG MOBILE. The news first broke after the Taliban-led communication department prepared an announcement for the country’s telecommunication and internet service providers.
‘TikTok has been spreading immoral and non Islamic content and videos in an Islamic country among the very vulnerable youths of Afghanistan, and we have to block it for the sake of our youths’ future,’ a Taliban official told MailOnline.
‘They are just devastating our young people by advertising western life style. We are living in an Islamic country and these platforms have been spreading contents against it,’ he said.
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‘Facebook is also spreading same kind of content. Our youths are wasting lost of time on that. It’s our duty to take care of young people,’ the official said. He also said that they received a lot of complaints about people “wasting their time” on the apps.
According to ABP Live, the plan is for the video-sharing app to be banned as soon as within a month, while for PUBG MOBILE, to have it completely erased within three months.People will be blocked from being able to use the popular apps in the country.
The new rulers of Afghanistan announced the decision in a meeting with the representatives of security sectors and a representative from the Sharia law enforcement administration. It comes after recent bans on music, movies and television soap operas which saw the Taliban destroying musical instruments.
