Instagram and other social networks are blocked in China

According to PhoneArena, in China, the social network Facebook, Instagram, even Weibo are blocked by the government to prevent a situation update from the Hong Kong protesters.

#occupycentral Popular hashtag on Twitter.

While users in China can not use smartphones to view and post pictures or update information about what is happening in the world, the people of Hong Kong have been fully used these tools. The social network where flooding pictures, information about protesters are tagged #occupycentral and #UmbrellaMovement. There #occupycentral hashtag on Instagramalone   has nearly 9,000 photos.

Occupy Central is a shortened version of the Occupy protest movement Central with Love and Peace (Occupy Central with Love and Peace).Movement protesters in Hong Kong starting from an operation last week through the lock park of the college students and colleges to demand reforms of local legislators and Beijing oppose the deep intervention into elections head of the district government, scheduled to take place in 2017.

28/9 days, Hong Kong police have used tear gas to disperse protesters.Instagram interception came after more photos and videos appear on the card application #occupycentral (Occupy Central), #UmbrellaMovement(there used tear gas)   and #hongkongteargas (tear gas).

Thus, Instagram is the latest online service is US listed Chinese censorship. Earlier, it had blocked Facebook, Twitter and several other Google services. Instagram said they knew the Chinese users access restricted applications and are seeking to overcome.

Meanwhile, the demonstrations mentioned topic on the net average Weibo also deleted or tightly controlled.