The telephone messaging service WhatsApp and he returned to work yesterday in Brazil following the decision of an appeals court to lift an unprecedented blockade of the application, which lasted 12 hours and caused outrage among millions of users.
WhatsApp installed in over 90% of smart phones in Brazil, stopped working after a failure of a judge of the interior of St. Paul intended to punish the company with a block of 48 hours for refusing to provide data personnel required in a case under summary users.
But the judge of second instance Xavier de Souza, the Court of Sao Paulo, disagreed, arguing that “because of the constitutional principles, it is reasonable that millions of users are affected. “
The interruption of the application affected the lives of millions of Brazilians who exchange daily text messages, voice, video and photos for free with this installed on their application smartphones, thus avoiding paying high rates of mobile operators.
The service is used among friends and family but also among merchants, customers and suppliers, or between doctors and patients.
“A sad day”
“This is a sad day for Brazil day,” said Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook and owner of WhatsApp, hearing the lock your application.
“I am astonished that our efforts to protect private data individuals will culminate in an extreme decision, taken by a single judge, who punishes all users of WhatsApp in Brazil, “but” we are working hard to reverse, “he said on his Facebook profile. Zuckerberg advised the Brazilian WhatsApp users from using both the Facebook Messenger.
At least one of the four main mobile operators in Brazil, Oi, he appealed the decision arguing that the suspension of service harmed all customers.
“This hurts consumers and affects millions of users overnight. It gives no time to make a communication to customers, they will think that the problem is with the operator, “union president of mobile phone companies, said Eduardo Levy by.
The president of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel, state), Joao Rezende, not hide his displeasure.
“The blockade is not the solution, because it is disproportionate and harmful to millions of users,” said the O Globo newspaper.
Thousands of Brazilians failed however to circumvent the ban by installing other messaging applications or different types of VPN that enable the WhatsApp instantly.
Telegram, happy
The blockade was the delight of Telegram, the messaging application Russian Pavel Durov, WhatsApp rival, who announced on Twitter have added 1.5 million new users in Brazil in a few hours.
Brazil with 204 million inhabitants, has more than 280 million mobile phone subscriptions, according to data from 2014.
Three out of 10 Brazilians have a smartphone and 93% have the application installed WhatsApp, according to a survey of Connect, the web platform Ibope polling firm, released Tuesday.
A life without WhatsApp?
The cell phone has become an extension of the hands of Brazilians, who take selfis incessantly and exchanged frantic messages on social networks.
Twitter is quickly showered and mocking angry messages about the suspension, many believed impossible. In February, a judge in the state of Piaui had already ordered unsuccessfully to suspend the popular service.
Many called down other applications such as the Telegram and some remembered the old Microsoft Messenger.
Taking advantage of the situation, the mayor of Rio published: “48 hours without WhatsApp and the good news is that it does not need to know the traffic in Rio”
#WhatsApp appeared among the Trending Topics on. Twitter, with #Telegram and #iMessage (Apple service). Also the # Nessas48HorasEuVou (# EnEstas48HorasVoy) in which many advanced their plans to 48 hours of life without WhatsApp.
“# EnEstas48HorasVoy to do a marathon [movie] before some judge is NetflixBrasil block occurs, “wrote one user. “# EnEstas48HorasVoy to sit and mourn,” posted another.
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