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App users in China are reporting widespread disruptions to the messaging app. It has reportedly been partially blocked by the massive filtering system that authorities use to limit free speech online. Users have found themselves unable to send photos, videos, and in some cases text messages. Security analysts confirmed to the Times that the disruptions were originating from the government.

Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Symbolic Software, tells the paper, “according to the analysis that we ran today on Whats. App’s infrastructure, it seems that the Great Firewall is imposing censorship that selectively targets Whats. App functionalities.”Even though Whats. App is incredibly popular around the globe—it has 7. China. Still, the app is popular with citizens who want to communicate with the outside world. That could be one reason that it has suddenly been targeted. According to research by Citizen Lab, there has been a concerted effort to block certain communications online following the death of China’s only Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, on July 1.

Citizen Lab found that for the first time, images were being blocked in one- on- one chats within We. Chat. The homegrown messaging app by Tencent boasts 7. Accounts that are registered to phone numbers from mainland China were unable to view at least 7. Facebook warned investors last week during an earnings call that it’s running out of space to insert ads while still maintaining an acceptable user experience. After hitting 2 billion users, it’s also running out of the potential for growth.

China is one of the few markets left to be tapped, but authorities have consistently resisted Mark Zuckerberg’s appeals. Reached for comment a Whats. App spokesperson told Gizmodo, “We are not providing a comment on this topic.”But it’s not just Facebook that has problems with China, major Western technology companies like Google and Twitter are also shut out of the country.

China’s government has been resistant to the explosion of the internet from the beginning, but it made certain allowances knowing that completely blocking the internet wasn’t an option in the modern world. Now, the growth of its own technology sector has given it a sort of parallel internet that can be controlled from within. Domestic companies like Baidu and Tencent offer search, microblogging, messaging, and other alternatives to the most popular web services. They also can’t tell Chinese censors “no.”Residents of China have always used VPN services to access the unrestricted internet, but greater efforts to block access to VPNs and remove them from online marketplaces have been enacted this year. On top of that, a confusing new cybersecurity law has left companies uncertain about what is and isn’t allowed on networks within the country’s borders. We’re not entirely sure why Whats. App is being disrupted at the moment, or if a permanent ban is in its future.

But China is very clearly signaling that it has its own internet now, and that’s a major problem for its citizens.[New York Times and Citizen Lab].