Afghanistan’s Taliban government has banned made-in-China social network TikTok and first-person shooter PUBG.
The bans were announced with a
Facebook post from the Afghan Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.
According to the
BBC, Afghanistan’s government mooted a ban on the two apps in April 2022, after labelling them both as bad influences on the youth of the nation.
But the Facebook statement suggests the ban didn’t take effect because local carriers didn’t act to enforce it, so the Ministry convened a meeting of government and telcos to settle the matter.
The result was an agreement that TikTok would be made unavailable for a month, with PUBG banished for 90 days.