Brazil Reverses Telegram Ban

A judge on Brazil's Supreme Court has reversed a ban on Telegram, two days after blocking the messaging app for ignoring orders. Engadget reports: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said the company missed the court's emails. "We complied with an earlier court decision in late February and responded with a suggestion to send future takedown requests to a dedicated email address," Durov wrote on Telegram on Friday. "Unfortunately, our response must have been lost, because the Court used the old general-purpose email address in further attempts to reach us. As a result, we missed its decision in early March that contained a follow-up takedown request. Luckily, we have now found and processed it, delivering another report to the Court today."

Durov added that Telegram will appoint a representative in Brazil and set up a framework so it can address requests more promptly. According to The New York Times, Telegram complied with the court's demands by taking down classified information posted on President Jair Bolsonaro's channel and deleting the accounts of a Bolsonaro supporter who was allegedly spreading misinformation. The court then reversed the ban. Telegram reacted so swiftly that the ban (which was imposed by a judge who is running multiple investigations into Bolsonaro and his allies for spreading misinformation) was never actually in effect. The court order gave Apple, Google, ISPs and phone providers five days to block the app. Telegram will also "start promoting verified information and labeling posts containing falsehoods," adds Engadget. "It will also monitor the 100 most popular channels in the country," which account for 95 percent of views of public posts.

Free speech use to be a thing

[nonBORG]

Is it only the US that values (or valued) free speech? I can understand classified information but spreading miss-information is just a catch all for saying we don't agree and since we are your dictators you need to shut up, and we enforce it by law.

rsilvergun is a russian trollbot

[SethJohnson]

Hey rsilvergun, if you are not a russian troll bot shitposting against the US, then prove it by posting a comment acknowledging that Putin is evil.

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[mmell]

The REAL rsilvergun ( 571051 ) is not here. This is nothing but a shit-for-brains IMPOSTER!

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[Luckyo]

Brazil is weird. It's a country of extremes that look fucked up to almost all outsiders. For example, in previous presidential election, one of the two main candidates campaigned from prison, where he was after he was convicted (not indited, not prosecuted, but actually convicted) of corruption while in office.

The other stated, among other things, that big problem with nazis is that... they were too lenient on their political opponents. And if you think that this is somehow unacceptable, I think it was Vice

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[SouthSeb]

Actually, Lula (who was imprisoned during last campaign) wasn't a candidate. His party's candidate was Fernando Haddad. And Lula's conviction were later overturned by the Supreme Court. Also, yeah... Brazil is weird.

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[Luckyo]

I stand corrected. He was campaigning from prison though.

common in LATAM

[luis_a_espinal]

where black grandma beat the shit out of her mulatto daughter if she brought something other than a white man home. And stated to the camera that the goal of her actions and long term family's goal was to "breed the black out".

This is an extreme example of a common problem in Latin America (I'm from LATAM). It's a legacy of the colonial cast system that we had to endure back then. It's not uncommon to hear people say, "my granddaughter is dark, but she's still cute" (I shit you not.) There's a thing called "improving the race" to breed out the "Black" and the "Indio" out of the family. You see that a lot in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Peru... pretty much everywhere.

It's extremely disturbing, and I, for one, I'm happy

Re: Only GOVERNMENT APPROVED TRUTH FOR YOU Peasant

[fbobraga]

It's the case of USA...

Re: Misinformation

[rpnx]

Wait... the two party system is BAD??? Who woulda thunk? /sarcasm Ranked choice voting please.

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[sg_oneill]

How exactly do you think "Marxists" are having any effect at all on the United states. Last time I checked its a two party system and Marxist parties cant even get a guy into local council elections let alone any sort of position of *actual* power.

Sure you'll get the odd democratic socialist type like Bernie in, but we're talking about Marxists here.

Or are we using Marxist in the republican sense of "This guy thinks gays should be allowed to have jobs, that sounds like FULL COMMUNISM to me!"

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[Luckyo]

We're using Marxism in the same way that Marx used it. As in people who believe that existence is fundamentally about dividing humans into groups among the lines of "oppressor" and "oppressed" and inflicting penalties on the members of the purported oppressor group and benefits on the members of the purported oppressed group. The only novel aspect to modern Marxists as opposed to classical Marxists is that classical Marxists only recognize the economic dimension for delineating oppressors and oppressed, whe

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[mmell]

The REAL rsilvergun ( 571051 ) is not here. This is an ass-munching IMPOSTER!

Honeypot

[bill_mcgonigle]

Their Intelligence people probably talked to the judge. Telegram has the reputation for being encrypted when only one non-default edge case is.