The Taliban have allegedly purchased satellite jammers from Iran to disrupt the last remaining independent television channel reporting on the regime’s brutal crackdown on human rights.
Iran’s assistance helped the Taliban leaders acquire orbital jammers for the satellite stations of the Afghanistan International Television and shut down broadcast for more than a week, AITV’s executive editor Harun Najafizada told The Independent.
The channel is popular among Afghans for their critical coverage of the country’s hardline Islamist regime.
Taliban officials reportedly sent disruptive signals from a ground station within Afghanistan to the satellite, interfering with its broadcast. Hundreds of people in Afghanistan saw a blank screen from 5 September to 13 September before the channel shifted to a different satellite frequency.
Can’t they just ban TikTok, RT, Africa Stream, teenagers, etc?
I guess these smaller states don’t have the imperial power to crush dissent like USA.
Oh yes, dissent is completely crushed. That’s why Fox News is broadcasting every night during the Biden administration and the late night shows were hammering Trump every night when he was in power.