IT, telecommuncations and media of Afghanistan

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Taleban telly ban
BBC News, 8 July 1998. [In an anti-globalization move,] Militia will confiscate and destroy television sets because film and music lead to moral corruption. TV-watching are un-Islamic acts that pollute society and distract people from worship. A harder line because the ban had little effect.
Taleban rules out lifting TV ban
BBC News, 23 July 2000. During a week-long seminar on the role of the media held by the Taleban Ministry of Information and Culture, reports that the Islamist state is considering lifting its ban on television was denied. Radio audiences are huge. Journalists come to Afghanistan with preconceptions and an anti-Taleban agenda.
Banning the Internet?
Editorial, DAWN, 20 July 2001. Prohibition on the use of the Internet to protect the local population from the effects of globalization: pornography and other western influences. Such prohibitions would only make sense in a wholly regimented country ruled by a fascist and paranoid government.