Last night around midnight Instagram users throughout China may have noticed that their news feed wasn’t refreshing, in the same way that Facebook doesn’t, and felt an impending sense of doom.
Following conversations with fellow users, it seems that the popular app has received a similar fate to Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat: censorship by the Great Firewall.
Whether this is just a temporary measure for the upcoming Golden Week celebrations or other reasons, still remains to be seen, but for now, we will just have to do with posting our pictures on WeChat’s moments.
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Next target is BBC? "Instagram user natsushimo posted an image of a yellow ribbon tied around a banister at Hong Kong Baptist University. Students not attending the protest and working at school are also reported to be wearing yellow ribbons." www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29407067
Oct 02, 2014 17:28 Report Abuse
Possibly a business decision, maybe there are products about to be launched that are Instagram clones and they want the real thing out of the marketplace. I have no idea why other countries let China expand it's business interests abroad when they impose so many restrictions on foreign companies in China itself, or just ban them altogether in many cases.
Sep 30, 2014 15:09 Report Abuse
My contacts in Hong Kong are telling me the REAL reason behind the massive protests, now spreading like fire all over Hong Kong, is that Hong Kong people at large are fed up with their uncivilised, ruthless counterparts in mainland china flooding their civilised city. They are sick of low lives shitting everywhere (literal and figurative), the kind that when they can't shit and pee in public as they would be beaten to a pulp, they tell their kids to do it to destroy the city they envy.
Oct 01, 2014 13:14 Report Abuse
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