{"id":201570,"date":"2024-12-14T03:05:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T09:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/russia-blocks-viber-in-latest-attempt-to-censor-communications"},"modified":"2024-12-14T03:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T09:05:51","slug":"russia-blocks-viber-in-latest-attempt-to-censor-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/russia-blocks-viber-in-latest-attempt-to-censor-communications","title":{"rendered":"Russia blocks Viber in latest attempt to censor communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-blocks-viber-in-latest-attempt-to-censor-communications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russian telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked the Viber encrypted messaging app, used by hundreds of millions worldwide, for violating the country\u2019s legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess to the Viber service is restricted due to the violation of the requirements of Russian legislation for organizers of information dissemination,\u201d Russia\u2019s internet regulator said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompliance with the requirements is necessary to prevent threats of using the messenger for terrorist and extremist purposes, recruiting citizens to commit them, selling drugs, as well as in connection with the posting of illegal information.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked the Viber encrypted messaging app, used by hundreds of millions worldwide, for violating the country\u2019s legislation. \u201cAccess to the Viber service is restricted due to the violation of the requirements of Russian legislation for organizers of information dissemination,\u201d Russia\u2019s internet regulator said in a press statement. \u201cCompliance with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1625,418,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-encryption","category-internet","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}