A year after an initial temporary block, the Brazilian justice system has again asked internet service providers (ISPs) and online app stores to cut off all access to the Telegram messaging app in the country.
This is the latest development in the highly contentious relationship between Brazil's judiciary and the tech company, SIA refers to foreign media.
On Wednesday, April 26, a federal court ordered Telegram to be blocked, saying that the app was not cooperating sufficiently with an important ongoing investigation into neo-Nazi groups. Investigators had requested, with the approval of a judge, that Telegram provide them with data on users participating in a violently anti-Semitic chat group, suspected of plotting attacks and having played a role in an anti-Semitic attack committed by a teenager in November 2022. The young man shot and killed four people, including a 12-year-old student, at a school in Aracruz (Espirito Santo, southeast).
The court also ordered the company to pay a penalty of about €200,000 per day until it provides the requested information. For the time being, Telegram has only partially complied with the investigators' requests, not providing, for example, the phone numbers of the administrators of two chat channels.
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