[jzwinck]

If you think this makes Brazil "anti-technology" I am curious to know your opinion about South Korea, which despite making a huge fraction of the world's smartphones and televisions has prevented Google Maps from working fully for their country. Point being, there are lots of reasons for countries to block certain things, and the notion that technology is inevitable and unquestionable does not carry water in many places outside the Bay Area.

[dataker]

It would "be reasonable" to ban if the alternative was a similar local service (e.g. Baidu vs Google in China).

The alternative here was an outdated SMS communication (telecoms in Brazil are so terrible they make Verizon look good).

[PauloManrique]

Yeah, because we can't access ICQ, Skype, Telegram, Viber, Line, WeChat, GroupMe and several other apps, right?