Russia says Viber is being used for "extremist" purposes and blocked it

In the aggressor country of russia, the russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications has stated that the popular messenger Viber is being used for terrorist purposes, so it has blocked it.

This was reported by Roskomnadzor.

They explained that Viber did not meet the requirements of the law and was allegedly used for terrorist and extremist purposes. It is also allegedly used to recruit citizens, sell drugs and spread "illegal information".

Recall that Facebook and Instagram are already blocked in russia.

The supervisory body of the terrorist country of the russian federation, Roskomnadzor, also announced the blocking of Signal in russia.

In addition, the YouTube website has stopped working on computers in russia. More than 5,000 russians reported a large-scale failure in the service.

Earlier, Ukrainian News Agency reported that the russian authorities had begun preparations to block WhatsApp. The Kremlin-controlled VK corporation has begun developing a new "national messenger" based on the existing "TamTam" from Mail.Ru Group. According to Verstka's sources, WhatsApp may be blocked as early as this fall, along with YouTube.