messaging app WhatsApp has been blacklisted By the Chinese government using the firewall to prevent users from using this service, New York Times. The reason is obvious, because, according to several observers, the application that allows the exchange of encrypted messages is not to the taste of the government, which has decided to discontinue its use throughout the country. Recently, various aspects of the app such as voicemails or video were no longer operational. There are now also affected messages. If at first users thought it was due to a failure of WhatsApp, after all, it is not.
WhatsApp: messaging app blocked in China
For the record, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s firm has its sights on this huge market, and blocking its flagship app will be a hard pill to swallow for the company. It also seems unlikely that the service will work again in China in the near future. As usual, users will have to resort to cheating to circumvent government-imposed blockades, especially using VPNs for web surfing. without being censored.
This is no trivial thing, freedom of expression is not achieved worldwide, and the Chinese will have to turn to alternatives as not everyone needs to have knowledge of using VPNs. WhatsApp is breaking records with 1 billion daily active users. The loss of the Chinese market probably will not allow it to grow rapidly in the short or medium term.
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