Telegram is about to be blocked here in Brazil
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#2Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram, following a request from the country's federal police, local news broadcasters TV Globo and CNN Brasil both reported on Friday.
Re: Telegram is about to be blocked here in Brazil
#3Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram, following a request from the country's federal police, local news broadcasters TV Globo and CNN Brasil both reported on Friday.
> The decision comes after the messaging app, which is widely used by Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, failed to respond to court orders to block certain accounts that had been found to disseminate disinformation, Globo reported.
What is really happening? This is as _ad hominem_ as it can get. Boo! Bolsonaro uses it, so block it. So maybe this is an oversimplification of the real reason. Anyway, I don't get it.
Re: Telegram is about to be blocked here in Brazil
#4Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram, following a request from the country's federal police, local news broadcasters TV Globo and CNN Brasil both reported on Friday.
> The decision comes after the messaging app, which is widely used by Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, failed to respond to court orders to block certain accounts that had been found to disseminate disinformation, Globo reported. What is really happening? This is as _ad hominem_ as it can get. Boo! Bolsonaro uses it, so block it. So maybe this is an oversimplification of the real reason. An…
Brazil has some laws about what app's 'are permitted to do'. Whatsapp was blocked more than once, but eventually complied; Telegram didn't.
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#5Brazil is the B in BRIC ?
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#6Brazil is the B in BRIC ?
Yes. Actually, Brazil is the B in BRICS. S is for South Africa.
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#7Doesn't seems like a big problem for me, I can use via tor. But it will be hard or impracticable to convince everybody I know to do the same.
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#8Doesn't seems like a big problem for me, I can use via tor. But it will be hard or impracticable to convince everybody I know to do the same.
There's a fine for anyone that tries to bypass this, a reasonable R$ 100,000.00 per day, and other punishments.
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#9The world is gradually sliding into an authoritarian dystopia and nobody is willing to do anything about it.
What a time to be alive.
Re: Telegram is about to be blocked here in Brazil
#10Doesn't seems like a big problem for me, I can use via tor. But it will be hard or impracticable to convince everybody I know to do the same.
There's a fine for anyone that tries to bypass this, a reasonable R$ 100,000.00 per day, and other punishments.
That's $20,000/day for anyone wondering. Seems like they mean business.