Social networking sites closed for security reasons, says Minister Tarana HalimSenior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
2015-11-18
State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim at a meeting with the officials of state-run mobile-phone operator Teletalk at its Gulshan office on Wednesday. Photo: mostafigur rahman
The state minister for posts and telecommunications has said that the social networking site Facebook and the instant messaging applications Facebook Messenger, Viber and WhatsApp were shut down ‘in the interest of national security’.
But there was no directive to shut down the internet as a whole, says Tarana Halim, adding that the problem could have occurred when these apps were being shut down.
For the first time in Bangladesh, millions of users were shut out of the internet for about 90 minutes on Wednesday.
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