China has blocked most of the WhatsApp features

Almaty. September 26. Silkroadnews – China blocked most of the WhatsApp features, the US Internet portal Fortune reported.
“China has reportedly blocked most services of the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging app, as online censorship increases ahead of a major political summit next month,” the report said.
According to communication experts, some disruptions in operation of the messenger, which China tried to block several times recently, were observed last Wednesday, and by the beginning of this week the messenger was completely blocked.
Nadim Kobeissi, a cryptographer at the Symbolic Software company, suggested “that the country’s censors may have invented specialized software to interfere with the app’s encryption technology.”
“The disruption is seen as a setback for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been pushing to tap back into the Chinese market. WhatsApp was reportedly the only Facebook product still allowed in mainland China since the social media giant was blocked from the country in 2009,” the report reads.