Ten years ago, when I came to Brazil for the second time, it was easy to find in stores phrases as” access to the Internet, MSN and Orkut “. At that time, for a large part of the population (nearly 200 million), the Internet was that MSN and Orkut. Time has passed, Internet now also Facebook, but for many there are no great options.
It is true that banks offer good services on the web, many businesses have page, there are large platforms e-commerce in general … Internet is quite well developed in a country that has grown disorganized, but it has grown, and it shows. The problem is that many millions of people have no access to what the Web has to offer, so they “make” basic services. Social networks
In the mobile world things They are not very different: Whatsapp, Facebook and Youtube are, by far, the most used applications in Brazil, and often, the only ones. Advertising on the streets proves it: “Buy with X operator, Whatsapp free.” Whatsapp is why many people want and has a mobile device that also serves to draw and play.
It is important to read this introduction to understand the importance of Whatsapp in Brazil, the system of communication between friends, families and businesses and being simple to perceive the national (and international) shame that the country is suffering right now.
Blocking
Yesterday, at 19pm, we received the news that WhatsApp will be blocked after 0h, five hours later. That is, after companies close their workday (they just about 18h), report that they have their main communication channel during the next day or the next … 48h lock without giving reason or allow companies prepare an alternative to continue “talking” with customers and suppliers.
This created chaos within the Whatsapp own. Groups digitally screaming, others saying it was a lie, the reasons for blocking multiplied, but not confirmed … until he left in the “Jornal Nacional”, the main newscast in the country: the blockade was real and would last until Saturday.
The companies had little time to notify contacts of the situation, to guide the delivery of information by email or by telegram (application that is growing enough in the region), to prevent the flow of data Stand to the next day.
Meanwhile, many are beginning to indicate that the lock had been canceled, sharing catch a newspaper wrote about it when something similar happened in February this year. It was not true .. the blockade itself would take place.
The reason
The judge’s decision was not published because there are “secret justice” involved in the situation, but it appears that Whatsapp not meet an order according to which had to send user data for a criminal investigation of 2013. The time Whatsapp had to comply with that order is over, and the judge decided to block the application.
The operators who want to block while Whatsapp for obvious reasons: calls have been greatly reduced since there is this platform, but that is no reason to block the tool, why not have ever gotten. We doubt that this blockade has to do with pressure from telephone operators to the government, but nothing is discarded.
Anyway, have not told the reason why the blockade is only 48 hours, although it is sufficient for operators to see if users decide to return to the traditional method calls and SMS or prefer to stick with time messaging alternatives.
Telegram
From telegram reported that in these first nine hours of blockade there almost 1 million new Brazilian users on the platform. Personally I find it somewhat exaggerated because of my 200 contacts nobody still using Telegram … will need more data to verify whether, in fact, more than 100 million users in Brazil Whatsapp decide to adopt such a solution, but for now it is not noticeable in the streets. It is true that the SMS messages in the new records are taking longer than usual, but may be due both to a great deal of Telegram by the unexpected flood of new users as a “problem on shipping by operators.”
Viber is an application that is gaining much sympathy in the country as well as Skype application installed in the best phones in the country (which does not mean that is present in most Brazilian devices).
Morning, Day Two of the blockade will continue telling how you’re living this blackout Whatsapp, what alternatives are being used and are still mulling what reasons.
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