Taliban To Impose Media Ban On Images Of Living Things. - eviltoast
    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      2 months ago

      But they still have TV, right? They did the last time the Taliban was in charge. I remember a news segment about it way back when the war started. The programming was mostly a bunch of religious stuff and their idea of news. So I guess no more news? Or no more TV? Or just text…

      • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        The russian way is to set up extremely restrictive laws covering everyone as guilty, so a governing body can use them to charge everyone they want. I guess, talibs learnt some of that wisdom visiting Kremlin while being a designated terrorist organization here, kek - and this status would get lifted in coming months.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        2 months ago

        I suspect some of them might still have cell phones with internet. I wonder if they’ll also force people to use text images as avatars on twitter or something