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by Kazuaki Nagata

Line and other popular messaging apps are apparently being blocked in China to censor a pro-democracy rally. For the past several days, Japanese and overseas media outlets have been reporting that Line, the South Korean messaging app Kakao Talk and Yahoo Inc.'s photo-sharing service Flickr ...

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