BY PTI | UPDATED: MAY 06, 2017, 01.08 PM
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BEIJING: Russia's telecoms watchdog has blocked
China's popular messaging app WeChat for failing to fulfil the country's
Internet regulations.
Watchdog Roskomnadzor has listed WeChat,
developed by Tencent Technology, on the register of prohibited websites, South
China Morning Post reported today.
"Tencent is aware of the move and
communicating with Russian authorities over the matter," a brief statement
from the Shenzhen-based company said.
Russia requires Internet service providers to
register with related government bodies, but Tencent "had a different
understanding" on this issue, the company said.
Access to the app was restricted on the basis of
Article 15.4 of the law on information, information technologies and
information security, according to Roskomnadzor, officially known as the
Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information
Technologies and Mass Communications.
The article stipulates sanctions for failure to
discharge various responsibilities of organisers of information distribution on
the Internet, the Hong Kong based daily said.
WeChat is China's most popular mobile social
media platform with 889 million active users worldwide by the end of 2016.
China has itself blocked foreign social media,
including Facebook and Twitter.
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