Access to Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat on mobile phones is currently restricted in Afghanistan. This comes after the Taliban cut internet and telecommunications services for two days last week.

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    5 days ago

    When they say access to social media on smartphones does that mean restricting connectivity to certain sites on devices using mobile IP addresses?

    I assume they have no mechanism to remove apps from individual devices.

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      5 days ago

      The apps don’t do anything useful if the government blocks connectivity to the servers that the software needs to talk to at the national network infrastructure level.

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        5 days ago

        That’s what I was getting at, I was trying to understand the mechanism by which they were doing this