Taliban Imposes Total Internet Blackout to Silence Afghan People

In a chilling move straight out of the dark ages, the Taliban has imposed a total internet and phone blackout across Afghanistan, plunging the country’s 43 million people into silence and severing their last connection to the outside world.

The regime claims the draconian measure is necessary to curb “immoral activities,” but the real reason is clear: control, censorship, and fear.

Beginning Monday, watchdog groups confirmed that all internet traffic in Afghanistan was cut off in a coordinated, stepwise shutdown led by Taliban authorities. NetBlocks, a global internet monitoring agency, described the event as a "total internet blackout," noting that phone networks were also disrupted.

“It has now been 24 hours since #Afghanistan imposed a national internet blackout... the ongoing measure marks the Taliban’s return to conservative values it espoused a quarter of a century ago,” NetBlocks reported.

Behind closed doors, even Taliban officials admit the blackout has brought the country to a standstill. One anonymous source told the Washington Post that the move had been debated internally and acknowledged, “everything is at a standstill at the moment.”

Flights to Kabul were canceled. Communication with relatives abroad was cut. And once again, the Afghan people especially women are being locked inside a brutal, regressive system without a voice.

Since the U.S. withdrawal in 2021, Afghanistan has descended back into medieval authoritarianism under the Taliban. Girls are banned from school, women are forced out of the workforce, and public floggings and executions have returned to town squares. Now, by cutting the internet, the Taliban is attempting to hide its crimes from the world.

“The silence online without Afghan voices from inside Afghanistan is deafening,” said former Afghan parliamentarian Mariam Solaimankhil. “Our people are being cut off, and the world is left in darkness without them.”

It’s no coincidence that this censorship follows reports of Taliban detention and abuse of Afghan-Americans, like Mahmood Habibi, who is still believed to be in Taliban custody. The regime wants no witnesses. No leaks. No accountability.

What’s even more disturbing? The utter silence from the international Left and so-called human rights champions. When Israel defends itself against terrorists, the global elite can't scream loud enough. But when actual terrorists black out an entire country’s internet to torture their own people? Crickets.

And let’s not forget how this nightmare became possible.

In 2021, Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan handed the country over to the Taliban on a silver platter, abandoning American citizens, allies, and billions in U.S. equipment. Now, under a Trump administration, the Taliban is facing sanctions, drone strikes, and international isolation. But under Biden? They're shutting down the internet with impunity.

Solaimankhil is now pleading with Elon Musk to activate Starlink satellite internet over Afghanistan the only real chance at restoring free communication inside the country.

“Starlink is the only way to break the chains of Taliban censorship,” she said. “This is the time where you stand on the right side of history.”

Currently, Starlink’s availability map shows no plans to cover Afghanistan, but it’s time that changed. If the West won’t act, maybe private innovation will.

The Taliban’s latest move is not just a blackout it’s a warning to every freedom-loving nation: tyranny thrives in darkness, and silence enables it.

If America wants to lead again, it must support those fighting for liberty not abandon them behind firewalls, blackouts, and barbed wire.

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