China blocks sending photos and videos via WhatsApp

China's restrictive measures regarding Internet messaging services are well known. Censorship in the eastern country is a daily dish and the search engines find themselves trapped, being unable to transmit information that is neutral or contrary to the ways of proceeding in their state. The list of blocked sites just keeps getting bigger. Among them, Facebook ( although according to the latest news it will adopt measures to be online), Twitter, Instagram, Wordpress, Google Play, the Google search engine... Any foreseeable site that transmits neutral information.Or, simply, that it could pose a 'danger' for the Chinese high echelons.

Forbidden to send videos and photos on WhatsApp

An authoritative control that now focuses on WhatsApp. As reported by the New York Times, the Great Wall of China has entered directly into the application. Numerous users have reported that they are unable to send photos. And not just photos: they can't send videos either. But the worst comes next. There is another batch of users who claim that they are unable to send text messages. As a result, the government could have blocked, in its entirety, access to the messaging application owned by Facebook.

This new restrictive move coincides with the launch, last month, of a new cybersecurity law. A law that is even more prohibitive than the previous one signed.According to Phone Arena sources, the blocking of WhatsApp is part of a Chinese government operation due to anonymous information from a person 'familiar with the situation'. Security experts have also verified that the blocking of WhatsApp originated from Chinese filtering servers.

With the blockade of WhatsApp, Facebook is left without participation in the most populous country in the world. As we said before, Facebook would be 'remodeling' its site to be able to return to work in China after three years of exile. E Instagram has been outside the Asian country since 2009 What is the future of Zuckerberg in China?