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The Brazilian government has announced that it cut off for 48 hours access to the application WhatsApp. According to Reuters is supposed to be a punishment for the failure by the local court kryminalnemu Facebook data one of the users of the application.
WhatsApp is a communicator. It allows you to send text messages and conversations głosowe.Pierwszy year of use is free, and each additional costs only $ 0.99 per year. WhatsApp can be integrated with the phone in such a way as to receive and send her using the normal SMS and call. More about mobile applications of this type read here .
Severe punishment
Blocking access to the application is a painful punishment because they are using it, because of the considerable telephone costs, 93% of Brazilian Internet users. That’s 110 million people (the population of Brazil is 200 million.). On the situation already gaining competitors – an application VOIPowa Telegram gained 1.5 million users. If you like the lock would be repeated on Facebook may lose permanently lot of customers on one of the most important markets.
Zuckerberg: we defend the right to privacy
The whole situation commented the founder of Facebook.
“I am amazed that our efforts to protect the privacy caused so extreme decision has the effect of punishing all users WhatsApp.” – He said Zuckerberg.
Do not really know who is right in this particular dispute. On the one hand, it is clear that the data requested by the court were related to a criminal matter. On the other hand, we do not know what specific information he had to pass Facebook.
A conflict of interest in the background
Lock WhatsApp , however, has another side. As explained TechCrunch Brazilian telecoms, dissatisfied with the loss of profits, lobbying for recognition as the application WhatsApp illegal. Would affect the interests in the same way as Uber detrimental to the interests of taxi drivers. WhatsApp is indicated as the reason for the resignation of millions of Brazilians from the use of SIM cards.
Brazil does not want the Internet as we know it?
Lock WhatsApp could be for Brazilian Internet users the least of the problems. The authorities in fact take some steps to regulate the Internet. Tech Crunch says that really the point is to ban publication of critical content in social media, censor the network. Brazilian politicians have even hate the Internet.
Internet pinches authorities?
Brazil would not be the first country introducing such restrictions. Similar almost two years in force in Turkey, where operators to the internet to collect data on users’ activity and block indicated by the page without waiting for the court verdict.
It is difficult to draw the line between protecting the user resulting from taking care of his privacy. and obstructing criminal proceedings. It is difficult to identify what behaviors authorities are no longer censor the Internet, and which prevent the transmission of content hateful or false accusations. Taking care of the welfare of citizens is usually an excuse to kneblowania freedom of speech. The only possible solution is to allow citizens to speak and take responsibility for his words.
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