What really happened: a drug smuggler with ties to a major criminal organization had been investigated and sentenced several months ago and since July Facebook and WhatsApp folks had not complied (actually they simply ignored all requests) with some users data the justice demanded to keep prosecuting the guy and his associates. Allegedly, according to the new <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brazilian_Civil_Rights_Framework_for_the_Internet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brazilian_Civil_Rights_Framewo...</a> if a company does exactly what they did, they can be temporarily blocked by a court decision as some sort of punishment for obstruction. Mark Zuckerberg complained saying it was just one judge who ordered this but AFAIK the block was requested by PA&#x27;s office.<p>To be fair, some Brazilian judges are pretty stupid and have no idea how the internet works so it&#x27;s quite possible the original users data request was super broad and that&#x27;s why Facebook and WhatsApp just ignored it. On the other hand, it&#x27;s only through very effective wires and digital data examination in recent years that the Brazilian justice is finally putting some big sharks into jail. That&#x27;s why I have mixed feelings about all this (and I&#x27;m a Telegram user myself).<p>Source, in Portuguese: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com.br&#x2F;investigacao-trafico-droga-bloqueio-whatsapp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com.br&#x2F;investigacao-trafico-droga-bloqueio-wh...</a>