When The Taliban Turned the Internet Off in Afghanistan

From Never Post by Charts & Leisure

March 12, 2026 · 37 min

About this episode

The episode discusses a 48-hour period in 2025 when the Taliban turned off the internet in Afghanistan, featuring insights from journalist Ali Latifi.

Contributing producer and Kabul-based journalist Ali Latifi tells the story of a roughly 48-hour period, at the end of 2025, when the Taliban turned off the entire internet in Afghanistan. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to an ad-free feed, and member-only episodes. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Cord Cutters https://bsky.app/profile/netblocks.org/post/3mgrehog7wk23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project The Internet, Switched Off Internet Shutdown: How Governments Weaponize Connectivity Iran’s regime has shut down the internet in the middle of war How Iran shut down the internet and built a sophisticated system of digital control Afghanistan imposes internet blackout: What has the effect been so far? The Kremlin says the internet is turned off to stop drone attacks. Russians are fed up Blocked and Bypassed: Russians Evade Internet Censorship – Find Ali https://authory.com/Ali – Thank you to Suha, Fara, Saeed, Samir, Ramin, Mohammad, Hamed, Jabar, Sanam Muradi, Haroun Rahimi, Naser, Ahmad Azizi and…

People in this episode

Host: Mike Rugnetta

Guest: Ali Latifi

Topics covered

internet shutdown
Afghanistan
Taliban
journalism
digital control

Keywords

Taliban
internet
shutdown
Afghanistan
journalism
Ali Latifi
digital control

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Never Post, Charts & Leisure, Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project, Cord Cutters

Places: Afghanistan