FC: Afghan Taliban leaders ban "wrong, obscene, immoral" websites

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

UPI coverage:
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=202816

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From: "R. v. Head" <4whp () home com>
To: <declan () well com>
Cc: "Matthew Gaylor" <freematt () coil com>
Subject: This guy could get a job with the AFA ...
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:09:03 -0400

Taliban Leaders: The Content's Lousy
Afghanistan 'Bans' The Internet
The Register

The Taliban has banned the use of the Internet in Afghanistan to stop
"immoral" material flooding into the country. According to the Afghan
Islamic Press, Taliban Foreign Minister Maulvi Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil
said it wasn't that the Afghan government was opposed to the Net, it
just didn't like the filth that was freely displayed on it. Muttawakil
commented: "We want to establish a system in Afghanistan through which
we can control all those things that are wrong, obscene, immoral and
against Islam," Afghan Islamic Press reports, via Reuters.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20381.html
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