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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by icebraining on Monday May 02, 2016 @06:43PM (#11616340)
Comply with what? What law is being broken here?
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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by odbol on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:10PM (#11617588)
Censorship laws, mainly. China wants to block out huge portions of search results, and Google doesn't want to do that.
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