The Taliban website which delivered rebel rebels rebels to Afghanistan and the world in five languages offline suddenly on August 20, showed an effort to put it out.
However, it is not clear, why sites in Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, English, and from offline on that day. They have been protected by CloudFlare, a content delivery network based in San Francisco and Denial-of-Service protection provider.
CloudFlare has not responded to emails and phone calls that are looking for comments about development, which was first reported by Washington Post. CloudFlare shield prevents the public to know who is truly hosting the site.
Also on that day, the popular encrypted message service WhatsApp removes a number of Taliban groups, according to Rita Katz, Director of the Site Intelligence Group, which tracks online extremism.
The loss of the website is only temporary because the Taliban secured new hosting settings. But the elimination of the WHATSAPP group reported following the ban on the Taliban account by Facebook, a service holding company, on August 17 after the US-supported Afghan government fell to the Taliban.
Whatsapp spokesman Danielle Meister did not confirm the removal but referred the Associated Press for a statement issued by the company earlier this week by saying that US sanctions law. This includes prohibiting accounts that seem to represent themselves as the official Taliban account.
Katz said via email that he hoped the removal of the Taliban website was only the first step to reduce its online presence.
Unlike Taliban 20 years ago that M.S. Drove from power in Afghanistan, today Taliban really understand the media and online infrastructure inspires and mobilizes “Al-Qaeda and other Islamic factions, Katz said.
Technology companies must do what they can to get this problem as soon as possible, because the groups present online trigger the new jihad movement throughout the world, he added.
Twitter hasn’t released a Taliban account and a group spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, has more than 300,000 followers there. The company indicated on August 17 that as long as the account observed the rules including not inciting or glorifying their violence will continue to rise.
Like Facebook, Google Google considers the Taliban terrorist organization and forbid it from an operating account.
The Taliban is not on the list of US foreign terrorist organizations, but the US has imposed sanctions at him.