A couple of months after the Chinese government blocked calls and multimedia messages on WhatsApp, the country has now completely blocked the instant messaging app's services.
Nadim Kobeissi, a cryptographer based in Paris, said, "Essentially, it seems that what we initially monitored as censorship of WhatsApp’s photo, video and voice note sharing capabilities in July has now evolved to what appears to be consistent text messaging blocking and throttling across China."
It looks like China upgraded its firewall to block the NoiseSocket protocol, which is what WhatsApp uses to send messages over the internet, resulting in a complete disruption of the Facebook owned messaging application's services.
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