China Bans Whatsapp Messenger

Popular minute messaging app WhatsApp has already been struggling for its being inward PRC e'er since July when Chinese authorities blocked its users from sending photos as well as videos over the app.

Now, it appears that PRC has largely blocked Facebook-owned WhatsApp inward its latest pace to tighten censorship equally the dry reason prepares for a major Communist Party gathering side yesteryear side month.

Yes, WhatsApp no longer industrial plant inward the dry reason at all.

PRC has a long history of blocking as well as limiting access to spider web services, peculiarly social networks as well as Western-owned sites through its Great Firewall. The service currently blocks about 171 out of the world's leading websites, including Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, as well as many Google services inward mainland China.

And now, it is WhatsApp.

Although it's unclear how long the messaging app may stay inaccessible inward the country, according to Symbolic Software, a Paris-based query theatre that monitors WhatsApp's province of affairs inward China, the dry reason has restricted its users from sending fifty-fifty text-based WhatsApp messages inside its borders.

WhatsApp was seeing severe disruptions equally early on equally concluding Midweek when about users reported WhatsApp disruptions inward China, exactly at this time, the service has reportedly been completely blocked as well as entirely accessible via VPNs (virtual individual networks) which tin toilet circumvent China's meshwork firewall.

But, inward illustration you lot are unaware, PRC has begun a 14-month-long crackdown on VPNs as well as proxy services inward the dry reason as well as made it mandatory for all VPN providers to get got a license from the authorities to role such services.

This deed of censoring the end-to-end encrypted messaging app comes ahead of side yesteryear side month's 19th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party.

At this sensitive gathering, which takes house ane time every v years, the Chinese authorities volition select novel leaders as well as orbit upward one's heed policy priorities.

By preventing its citizens from using WhatsApp, Chinese authorities promise to forcefulness them to role the secure messenger alternatives similar WeChat, which offers the Chinese authorities amongst its citizens' personal data.

Neither WhatsApp nor its nurture fellowship Facebook has provided whatever comment on this censorship.

The deed is a severe blow to the social media giant, whose master copy website as well as app get got already been banned inward PRC since at to the lowest degree 2009. Facebook-owned Instagram is besides blocked inward the country.

Now amongst the blocking of WhatsApp, Facebook's entirely left promise inward PRC is the photo-sharing app, Colorful Balloons, which the social network stealthily released inward the dry reason concluding month.

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