Taliban app surfaces on Amazon

April 07, 2016 20:23

In a game of whack-a-mole, a Taliban app banned by Google has become available on Amazon.

The app, called "Voice of Jihad," lets people keep up with the latest Taliban news, videos and updates.

The version currently available on Amazon is in English. On Monday, Google removed a Pashto version of the app from its Play store. A spokesman for Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Amazon's app store provides an alternate way for people to download apps for Android smartphones. Though most of the apps on Google Play and the Amazon app store are the same, Amazon offers a small handful of apps that have been banned by Google (GOOGL, Tech30).

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