{"id":29831,"date":"2021-03-17T03:59:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/signal-blocked-china-encrypted-messaging-app"},"modified":"2021-03-17T03:59:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T18:59:54","slug":"signal-china-appears-to-have-blocked-encrypted-messaging-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29831","title":{"rendered":"Signal: China appears to have blocked encrypted messaging app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move to silence the app comes as China expands controls to shape public opinion and limit private discourse<\/p>\n<p>The encrypted messaging app Signal appears to have been blocked in mainland China, the latest foreign social media service to cease working in a country where the government tightly controls the flow of information.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, users of the app within China had to connect to a virtual private network (VPN) that allows them to circumvent China\u2019s so-called Great Firewall, a censorship system that blocks websites, services and apps deemed inappropriate by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/signal-blocked-china-encrypted-messaging-app\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move to silence the app comes as China expands controls to shape public opinion and limit private discourseThe encrypted messaging app Signal appears to have been blocked in mainland China, the latest foreign social media service to cease working in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29832,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831\/revisions\/29832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}