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No Signal? Encrypted messaging app Signal blocked in China – Al Jazeera English
Signal appears to be the latest messaging app to cease working in a country that tightly controls the flow of info.
Encrypted messaging app Signal appears to have been blocked in mainland China, the latest foreign social media service to cease working in a country where the government tightly controls the flow of information.
As of Tuesday, users of the app within China have had to connect to a virtual private network (VPN) that allows them to circumvent Chinas so-called Great Firewall, a censorship system that blocks websites, services and apps deemed inappropriate by the Chinese government.
The move to silence…
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