{"id":14466,"date":"2015-12-17T20:21:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T18:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=14466"},"modified":"2015-12-17T20:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T18:21:57","slug":"brazil-judge-lifts-whatsapp-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/17\/brazil-judge-lifts-whatsapp-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil judge lifts WhatsApp suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in Brazil has ordered that a suspension of the popular messaging application WhatsApp be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Xavier de Souza said the service should be re-instated immediately.<\/p>\n<p>A court had ordered the service be suspended for 48 hours on Thursday for failing to comply with a court order to provide investigators with information relating to a criminal court case.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Souza said it was &#8220;not reasonable that millions of users be affected by the inertia of the company&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilians had complained bitterly on social media about the suspension of WhatsApp, which is a hugely popular app used by many to communicate with family, friends and colleagues both inside of Brazil and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-three per cent of the country&#8217;s internet population use WhatsApp, according to the TechCrunch website, with many young and poor Brazilians taking advantage of its free text message and internet telephone service.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of the suspension being coming into force, the hashtag #Nessas48HorasEuVou (#Inthese48hoursIwill) began trending on Twitter, with Brazilians joking about all the things they would do during the suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in Brazil has ordered that a suspension of the popular messaging application WhatsApp be lifted. Judge Xavier de Souza said the service should be re-instated immediately. A court had ordered the service be suspended for 48 hours on Thursday for failing to comply with a court order to provide investigators with information relating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}