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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by mirimir on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @03:10AM (#11618545)
Internet sovereignty, for sure.

It's really the only way to go. Otherwise, you get pissing matches. Brazil blocks WhatsApp. China blocks Facebook, GitHub, etc. Iran blocks so much stuff that people need to get data dumps via satellite TV. The US blocks a lot too, but mostly about gambling, "piracy", etc.

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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by veidr on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:24AM (#11620367)
That has nothing really to do with Internet sovereignty (whatever that means).

It has to do with some countries suck more, and some suck less.

Plenty of countries don't block anything. Like military aggression, child mortality, literacy rate, etc., that is one important data point about any country and its government.

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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by devishard on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:29PM (#11633852)
> That has nothing really to do with Internet sovereignty (whatever that means).

If you don't know what "internet sovereignty" means, then how can you possibly claim that something had nothing to do with it?

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