Brazil shuts WhatsApp

A Brazilian judge has, for the second time, ordered the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging service to be shut down across the country for 72 hours. A judge in the north-east state of Sergipe has told the country's four main telcos to block the service, cutting off tens of millions of users for the second time in five months. …

[Sebastian A]

So the normal users of the app have to suffer the power trip of some conceited judge? I doubt it'll have as much impact on WhatsApp as it does on the app's users in Brazil.

[Mark 85]

I doubt that it's a conceited judge. The President in under impeachment due to corruption and there's been a lot of protests. I suspect it has to do with stopping communication among the populace as from reports, she's (the President) is attempting to hold onto power by any means.