Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Late stage socialism: China fully blocks WhatsApp


Tough times for devoted WhatsApp users in China - the popular messaging app has been just blocked locally, following several days of spotty functionality on a local scale. It's joining the fold of multiple other ultra-popular apps, services, and websites like Wikipedia, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, most of Google's services, and many others. 

As usual, the reason for this act is none other than censorship and easier data monitoring.

This is an usual practice for the Chinese government - once a Western app or service ...

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