Not unsympathetic to the brasileros affected, but this is not the first time this happened over there - surely at this point the fragility of centralised platforms, and becoming reliant on them, is well known by now?
WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
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#12Would a p2p architecture thwart this kinda blocking?
Not if the App Store is still in the mix. It's a centralized distribution failure point for the app.
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#13Would a p2p architecture thwart this kinda blocking?
You can't fix social problems with technology. The issue here is Brazilian law and the failure to understand the implications of encryption by the courts, not WhatApp's connection architecture.
I agree, but it's still important to try.
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#142nd time in less than 12 months. probably, we are going to see a surge in telegram downloads/usage today.
Yes, it's happening, more than 1M accounts* created by brazilians today.
[1]: https://twitter.com/telegram_br/status/727201106166689792
Re: WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
#15The title makes it sound much worse than it is -- it's actually only a 72-hour shutdown. From the beginning of the article: > A BRAZILIAN STATE JUDGE ordered mobile phone operators to block nationwide the extremely popular WhatsApp chat service for 72 hours...
It is as bad as they make it sound. WhatsApp is the biggest form of communication in Brazil. It would be effectively the same as SMS and phone calls being disabled in the U.S. (or maybe just like the effect of blocking StackOverflow for all programmers ;))
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#16Keep electing terrible politicians Brazil
Re: WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
#17Marcel Maia Montalvão, of Sergipe state, sounds like a luddite judge with more judicial power than is warranted by her technocratic abilities would warrant.
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#18Re: WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
#19Keep electing terrible politicians Brazil
That's assuming there are fair elections in Brazil.
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#20Would a p2p architecture thwart this kinda blocking?
Probably yes, my concern is that this can be exactly what judges, telcos and its lobbyists want.
They could use this in the future to justify blocking client-to-client connections, implement deep packet inspection, maybe even transform internet in Brazil in a deny-by-default network, where only allowed content would be accessed.
Too much of a conspiracy theory? Maybe yes, but given the current political turmoil in Brazil, I wouldn't be surprised.