Internet censorship: WhatsApp criticizes full blockade in Russia | EUROtoday

The chat service WhatsApp accuses the Russian authorities of making an attempt a whole blockade. Excluding over 100 million customers from safe and personal communication will result in much less safety for individuals in Russia, criticized a spokeswoman for the app owned by the Facebook Group Meta. Everything potential shall be achieved to make sure that customers stay related.

The Russian authorities has been steadily proscribing the capabilities of worldwide messenger apps for a while. With WhatsApp, for instance, calls have been solely potential by way of VPN connections (Virtual Private Network). Telegram and the Apple service iMessage have been additionally restricted.

WhatsApp has end-to-end encryption, which implies that solely the customers concerned can see posts in plain textual content – however not WhatsApp because the operator.

Since the beginning of the warfare of aggression in Ukraine, the Russian authorities have drastically tightened management and censorship on the Internet. While overseas providers are being restricted, the home Messenger Max has been launched in Russia. In the assertion, WhatsApp spoke of a “state surveillance app” that the Russian authorities wished to pressure customers into.