[kictanet] China Disrupts WhatsApp Service in Online Clampdown - The New York Times

[Ali Hussein]

SHANGHAI — The last of Facebook’s major products that still worked in China was disrupted by the government on Tuesday, as Beijing broadly tightened its controls over the internet.

The product, WhatsApp, a messaging app used across the globe, was partly blocked by Chinese filters, leaving many unable to send videos and photos and some also unable to send text-based messages.

Read on:-

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/technology/whatsapp-facebook-china-internet.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_dk_20170718&nl=dealbook&nlid=65658228&ref=headline&te=1


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