Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp for 48 Hours
The news is misrepresenting what is actually happening.<p>A judge ruled for a 48 hour ban of WhatsApp from telcos to try to coerce WhatsApp into releasing private chat information for an ongoing criminal investigation (wild guess: they want information from politically exposed actors due to the recent corruption investigations). There are precedents, and that's a tactic local judges are using to try to get cooperation from international private companies.<p>This is the actual fact, but the article is conflating that with Marco Civil and other regulatory attempts that have nothing to do with this particular court ruling.<p>TL;DR TechCrunch publishes unchecked, alarmist news.