Brazil, magistrate blocks WhatsApp for hours: 100 million users are no chat – The Messenger

Standoff between judges in Brazil on WhatsApp: Yesterday a judge had ordered the suspension of the service for 48 hours, starting at midnight today, but another day toga ordered its immediate reactivation. For a few hours, the application of mobile messaging remains totally inaccessible in the South American giant.

A long enough to let the panic almost 100 million users in the country, where the famous “app” for mobile reigns among the most used ever. So much so that some telephone companies, such as Oi, had decided to appeal against the court order. Even Facebook founder (and owner of WhatsApp), Mark Zuckerberg, it was said “shocked” by the sudden blackout: “This is a sad day for Brazil. To date the country has been an ally in the creation of an internet network open, “was the message the American entrepreneur.

” I am astounded that our efforts to protect the data of the people translate into a so extreme decision of a judge who punishes any person who uses WhatsApp in Brazil, “he added. To have the stop of the app had been the judge of a court in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in the hinterland of St. Paul: in his opinion, those responsible for WhatsApp on July 23 did not comply with the order of a fellow magistrate issued in the context of criminal proceedings whose content was not disclosed. The company would also ignored a second notification received in August, and the public prosecutor has decided the temporary suspension of the service, which was to last until tomorrow.

“save” millions of Brazilian customers desperate He was a judge of the court of St. Paul, Xavier de Souza: shortly after the momentary block, ordered the immediate restoration of WhatsApp throughout Brazil. “Because of the constitutional principles – the judge wrote in the grounds of its order – seems unreasonable that millions of users are affected because of the inertia of an undertaking ‘to collaborate with the justice. For Judge de Souza, better would impose “a fine high value at a level sufficient to inhibit any further resistance” to respect the order.