Washington: Instagram has allegedly been blocked in mainland China. Â
According to reports, Facebook owned photo-sharing app has been blocked to prevent images of demonstrations in Hong Kong of the pro-democracy protest from reaching the mainland.
The site was one of a scarce few social networks that had avoided the attention of China’s censors, but as photos of the protests flooded the image sharing service under the hashtag #OccupyCentral, it seems the government decided to pull the plug.
Website monitoring services blockedinchina.net and greatfire.org both indicate that mainland China cannot access Instagram.
Hong Kong’s embattled leader Leung Chun-ying is facing mounting calls to resign and accusations of failing to engage with protesters after their “Umbrella Revolution” campaign for universal suffrage sparked the biggest civil unrest in decades.
(With inputs from ANI)
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