Afghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged on October 14 to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced.
But they still have TV, right? They did the last time the Taliban was in charge. I remember a news segment about it way back when the war started. The programming was mostly a bunch of religious stuff and their idea of news. So I guess no more news? Or no more TV? Or just text…
I suspect some of them might still have cell phones with internet. I wonder if they’ll also force people to use text images as avatars on twitter or something
The russian way is to set up extremely restrictive laws covering everyone as guilty, so a governing body can use them to charge everyone they want. I guess, talibs learnt some of that wisdom visiting Kremlin while being a designated terrorist organization here, kek - and this status would get lifted in coming months.
So… TV news will just be text on a screen?
I suppose TV wouldn’t make much sense under those circumstances.
But they still have TV, right? They did the last time the Taliban was in charge. I remember a news segment about it way back when the war started. The programming was mostly a bunch of religious stuff and their idea of news. So I guess no more news? Or no more TV? Or just text…
I suspect some of them might still have cell phones with internet. I wonder if they’ll also force people to use text images as avatars on twitter or something
The russian way is to set up extremely restrictive laws covering everyone as guilty, so a governing body can use them to charge everyone they want. I guess, talibs learnt some of that wisdom visiting Kremlin while being a designated terrorist organization here, kek - and this status would get lifted in coming months.
I wonder if animation will filll the gaps.
Does Afghanistan even have people able to do the volume of animation that would require?
Or I suppose it could just be little 5 second loops or whatever. One or two people could do that.
Edit: Oh! They can do it all with puppets! The Afghanistan Muppet News Night!
It looks like they have the capability based on this police documentary.
I regret to inform you that animations are images