Justice decides to take down Telegram in Brazil due to lack of cooperation

Espírito Santos Court of Justice (TJ/ES) this Wednesday (26), phone operators to enforce a nationwide suspension of Telegram. Vivo, Claro, Tim and Oi, as well as Google and Apple responsible for Google Play and App Store, will be notified to remove the messenger from online stores.

The decision, approved by Minister of Justice Flávio Dino, because application did not fully comply with the request of the Federal Police (PF) to expose data from neo-Nazi groups. According to this g1Telegram, for example, did not send the phone numbers of people who were part of these communities that spread hate speech.

In addition to the blockade, the Espírito Santo Judge imposed a fine of R$1 million for each day the reporter did not transmit the information.

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Telegram came to the target of Government and Justice after investigations by PF. The police agency revealed that the 16-year-old boy, who killed four people in the attack on two schools in Aracruz (ES) in November 2022, joined neo-Nazi groups through the app.

According to the investigation, “the underage perpetrator, homicide tutorials, videos of violent death, tutorials on the manufacture of explosive devices, minorities and neo-Nazi ideals”.

HE Technology World Contacted Telegram but did not receive a response until the issue was closed.