Auch Afghanistan hat nun eine Netzzensur-Infrastruktur errichtet, um missliebige Inhalte zu blockieren. Dazu gehören Plattformen wie Facebook, Youtube, Twitter und GMail. Und eine Reihe von Webseiten, die Alkohol, Dating, Glücksspiele und Pornographie zum Inhalt haben. Die EFF berichtet darüber: Another Bad Week for Free Expression on the Internet.
Die OpenNet Initiative hat ihren Länderreport zu Afghanistan überarbeitet: Afghanistan begins Internet filtering with Gmail, Facebook.
Dort wird auch ein Zitat eines afghanischen Pressevertreters verlinkt, der etwas unglücklich darüber ist:
But now the government says that there are some websites which are „immoral“ and against the traditions of the Afghan people so they are planning to not only block those websites that glorify violence, but they are also trying or planning to block those websites which the Taliban didn’t like.… [The Afghan press corps] are unhappy about this. They say that if these restrictions are imposed, it would mean that the government would be able to block any website they don’t like, or block those websites which are critical of the government. So there is this concern in the journalist community in Afghanistan.