Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Grue3 3114 days ago
Russian government is routinely blocking other chat systems. LINE, CacaoTalk and WeChat are currently banned.
1 comments
Dolores12 3114 days ago
>LINE, CacaoTalk and WeChat are currently banned.

No they are NOT banned, I just tried Line & WeChat.

link
Grue3 3114 days ago
Maybe you got lucky with your ISP, or the apps learned to work around the block. My home ISP definitely blocks Line website. There are plenty of news sites reporting on the blocks, such as [1]

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/08/technology/wechat-blocked-ru...

link
Dolores12 3114 days ago
I have checked blocklist, indeed line.me is blocked[0]. I have tried to run application.

[0] https://reestr.rublacklist.net/rec/170456/

link