To put this in perspective, it would be as if a single judge in the US managed to shutdown all SMS for 48 hours, in the whole country. (<i>)<p>Because, you see, SMS is too expensive in Brazil. So people resort to WhatsApp instead.<p>(</i>) It doesn&#x27;t matter if SMS is not controlled by a single company, the block has to be enforced by all internet and cellphone operators in the entire country.