Following a court ruling on the matter, Telegram has been suspended in Brazil since Wednesday evening and will remain so until its lawyers succeed in overturning a federal court order or until it provides the Federal Police with all the data the corporation has demanded about it. – Nazi groups encouraging attacks on schools.
In a report that the press has had partial access to, the Brazilian Federal Police say that Telegram deliberately harbors people and groups that practice or encourage crime and that it has become another “dark web”, an obscure Internet used by all types of criminals.
“The environment on Telegram is so secure for hiding the identity of its users that the app competes with the also disturbing environment found on the dark web, yet with the appeal of being a simple app and easy to use for those who do it. not have the great computer knowledge that would be necessary to use the “deep web”. An excerpt from the PF investigation report could be read as an argument for a federal court to decide to suspend the platform.
The court decision was communicated this Wednesday to telecom operators and app stores operating in Brazil and at the beginning of the night Telegram was no longer available, a situation that continued this Thursday.
In addition to the suspension, the court imposed a fine of 181,000 euros on Telegram for each day of its refusal to provide the authorities with all the necessary data.
As part of the investigation into the attack on the school in Espirito Santo, the federal police requested from Telegram the data and identities of the persons responsible for the profiles and accounts of neo-Nazi groups in which the 16-year-old schoolboy, who carried from what the murder was inspired, and where he would have been prompted commit an attack.
Telegram, one of the apps most resistant to cooperating with the Brazilian authorities in the fight against publications that encourage hate and violence, passed some data to the Federal Police but refused to release the names and known contacts of those responsible for extremist profiles. .
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This Correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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