Ban Images of "Living Things"

So no TV at all. No photos taken with microscopes of bacteria. No photos of any land not utterly barren. No photos of the sky with passing birds or insects. No Internet because of the ubiquitous cats. Seems simpler to ban all photos.

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Afghan Taliban vow to implement media ban on images of living things

by Agence France-Presse

Kabul --

Afghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a
law banning news media from publishing images of all living things,
with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced.

"The law applies to all Afghanistan... and it will be implemented
gradually" by persuading people images of living things are against
Islamic law, spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue
and the Prevention of Vice Saiful Islam Khyber told AFP.

The Taliban government judiciary recently announced legislation
formalising their strict interpretations of Islamic law imposed by the
authorities since they swept to power in 2021.

The law detailed several rules for news media, including banning the
publication of images of all living things and ordering outlets not to
mock or humiliate Islam, or contradict Islamic law.

Aspects of the new law have not yet been strictly enforced, however,
and Taliban officials continue to regularly post photos of people on
social media.

Television and pictures of living things were banned across the country
under the previous Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, but a similar edict
has so far not been broadly imposed since their return to power.

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