social networking service Instagram has been
blocked in China. The reports came amid pro-
democracy protests in Hong Kong, where many
have posted photos and videos, including photos
of Hong Kong police firing tear gas at
demonstrators in the city Many of the photos
were labeled with the hash tag #Occupy Central’,
a phrase that was blocked on Sunday, September
28, 2014, on Weibo, ‘China’s version of Twitter’.
The website www.blockedinchina.net also
indicated that Instagram was blocked across
China, including in Beijing and Shenzhen. If the
site was blocked in China, that would not prevent
users in Hong Kong from posting on social
media, nor users in other countries viewing the
images. Instagram is an online mobile photo-
sharing, video-sharing and social networking
service that enables its users to take pictures
and videos, and share them on a variety of social
networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter,
Tumblr and Flickr..
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