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Jul 19, 20161 min

WHATSAPP BLOCKED AGAIN IN BRAZIL

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is banned in Brazil again.A Brazilian judge has ruled that WhatsApp be blocked indefinitely, Reuters reports. The judge, Daniela Barbosa Assunção de Souza, ordered the country's wireless carriers to block the messaging app for allegedly not cooperating with a criminal investigation."We're working to get WhatsApp back online in Brazil," WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum said in a Facebook post. "It's shocking that less than two months after Brazilian people and lawmakers loudly rejected blocks of services like WhatsApp, history is repeating itself. As before, millions of people are cut off from friends, loved ones, customers, and colleagues today, simply because we are being asked for information we don't have."

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