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China’s security officials test the way and means on how internet addresses of services hosting or using illegal content work in their country. Once found the irregularity, the authorities would ask internet service providers to tell their clients to stop. If the clients doesn’t act rightfully, they said, the service providers and Chinese officials would cut their connection in a matter of minutes, which includes making some news websites inaccessible and passing rules that result in app removals - has left big players like Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter and Gmail are all blocked in the country for years.

With an audience size of more than 700 million internet users who buy $750 billion of stuff online a year in China, but they are served by local tech companies that have developed their own way of doing business that can seem exotic to Silicon Valley. Facebook is blocked in 2009 after ethnic unrest in western China and similarly, Instagram blocked in 2014 during protests that fall in Hong Kong and WhatsApp platform is also not widely used in China, where local messaging app WeChat dominates. Even so, WhatsApp provides encrypted messaging, making it a useful tool for many Chinese to communicate or do business outside the country or in Hong Kong....Read More

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