{"id":21089,"date":"2025-12-05T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/russia-blocks-snapchat-and-restricts-apples-facetime-state-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:37:50","slug":"russia-blocks-snapchat-and-restricts-apples-facetime-state-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/russia-blocks-snapchat-and-restricts-apples-facetime-state-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia blocks Snapchat and restricts Apple\u2019s FaceTime, state officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest effort to control communications comes as regulator claims apps being used to \u2018conduct terrorist activities\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities blocked access to Snapchat and imposed restrictions on Apple\u2019s video calling service, FaceTime, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet and communications online, according to state-run news agencies and the country\u2019s communications regulator.<\/p>\n<p>The state internet regulator Roskomnadzor alleged in a statement that both apps were being \u201cused to organize and conduct terrorist activities on the territory of the country, to recruit perpetrators [and] commit fraud and other crimes against our citizens\u201d. Apple did not respond to an emailed request for comment, nor did Snap Inc.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/04\/russia-snapchat-apple\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b91546b6b9c9d51161d338b9639321591b1f9608\/268_0_2679_2143\/master\/2679.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=caf6043c4e0374b03df64ad114197b5b\" title=\"Russia blocks Snapchat and restricts Apple\u2019s FaceTime, state officials say\" \/>Latest effort to control communications comes as regulator claims apps being used to \u2018conduct terrorist activities\u2019<br \/>\nRussian authorities blocked access to Snapchat and imposed restrictions on Apple\u2019s video calling service, FaceTime, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet and communications online, according to state-run news agencies and the country\u2019s communications regulator.<br \/>\nThe state internet regulator Roskomnadzor alleged in a statement that both apps were being \u201cused to organize and conduct terrorist activities on the territory of the country, to recruit perpetrators [and] commit fraud and other crimes against our citizens\u201d. Apple did not respond to an emailed request for comment, nor did Snap Inc. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest effort to control communications comes as regulator claims apps being used to \u2018conduct terrorist activities\u2019 Russian authorities blocked access to Snapchat and imposed restrictions on Apple\u2019s video calling service, FaceTime, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet and communications online, according to state-run news agencies and the country\u2019s communications &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/russia-blocks-snapchat-and-restricts-apples-facetime-state-officials-say\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russia blocks Snapchat and restricts Apple\u2019s FaceTime, state officials say<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}