The Supreme Court of Brazil gave Telegram a day to fulfill all the requirements, otherwise, from March 21, a complete blocking of the messenger in the country will begin.
Partially, Telegram began to comply with the requirements of the court. The agency clarified that it would cancel the blocking order only if the administration of the platform complies with all court requirements, without exception, including:
appoint an official representative of Telegram in Brazil, it can be an individual or a legal entity;
inform the court immediately and without fail about measures to combat disinformation and the spread of false news;
remove links in the official Telegram channel of President Jair Bolsonaro to copies of confidential documents about the pending federal police investigation (Teleram did this);
to block the Telegram channel of the journalist Claudio Lessa, who spreads fakes, to provide the court with the registration details of the channel's account, and to save all content broadcast in this channel for police investigation,
On March 18, 2022, the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled to block the Telegram application in the country at the request of the prosecutor's office and the police due to the placement of fakes and prohibited content there, which the platform administration did not remove at the request of the court.
After this decision, Durov apologized to the Supreme Court of Brazil for the negligence in processing requests from the department and the poor work of his team. He promised to fix everything, asked for a delay in the implementation of all decisions and not to block the messenger.
The court order is currently under execution. Internet service providers in the country have already received a court order to take action to block the application in Brazil from March 21. This will be done by Algar Telecom, OI, Sky, Live Tim, Vivo, Net Virtua, GVT and other providers. In case of refusal, they face a fine of 100,000 reais (2 million rubles) per day. The court also ordered Apple and Google to remove the Telegram app from their Brazilian mobile app stores.
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