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0 pointsGrue38y ago0 comments

Russian government is routinely blocking other chat systems. LINE, CacaoTalk and WeChat are currently banned.

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>LINE, CacaoTalk and WeChat are currently banned.

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

Grue3OP8y 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...

Dolores128y ago

I have checked blocklist, indeed line.me is blocked[0]. I have tried to run application.

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

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Dolores128y ago

>LINE, CacaoTalk and WeChat are currently banned.

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

Grue3OP8y 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...

Dolores128y ago

I have checked blocklist, indeed line.me is blocked[0]. I have tried to run application.

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

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse