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by schoen 1149 days ago
This has happened several times before with other services:

https://bloqueios.info/en/timeline/

Unfortunately this site hasn't been updated since 2016, but I don't think that's because these kinds of orders have stopped being issued. They've previously been issued on various occasions by a state judge when a company either ignores or says it can't technically comply with a subpoena or injunction in a court case, and have so far usually been overturned by Brazilian appeals courts.
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matheusmoreira 1149 days ago
This time the DNS block was ordered directly by a supreme court judge. No one can overturn that. Also, the political scenario was different. Brazil used to at least pretend to be a democracy with a constitution and rule of law. Since then, these supreme court judges have done far worse than block some messaging service. This is literally nothing to people like them.
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schoen 1149 days ago
> This time the DNS block was ordered directly by a supreme court judge. No one can overturn that.

I think you're mistaken, unless there was an incredibly rapid sequence of events in this case.

https://static.poder360.com.br/2023/04/decisao-telegram-grup...

Seção Judiciária do Espírito Santo 1ª Vara Federal de Linhares [...] assinado por WELLINGTON LOPES DA SILVA

That would be a first instance (trial) court, not any kind of appellate court. (Though in the Federal judiciary rather than the state judiciary.)

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matheusmoreira 1148 days ago
Yeah, looks like I'm mistaken. I think I read "federal judge" and mentally substituted supreme court. I apologize.
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sofixa 1148 days ago
> Brazil used to at least pretend to be a democracy with a constitution and rule of law

What do you mean? Didn't they have an election that the incumbent lost (for very good reasons I might add, anyone who bungles the Covid response that bad doesn't deserve to remain in power regardless of anything else (and there was a lot of "else")) recently, implying democracy and all that?

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cjalmeida 1149 days ago
Order was issued by a trial federal judge (1a instância). Please stop spreading conspiracy misinformation.
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