WhatsApp is blocked in Brazil for its 100m local users

WhatsApp has been blocked across Brazil for the next 72 hours in accordance with a state judge’s order. The service is estimated to have about 100 million users in the country. The ruling came into effect at 1PM ET, with a warning to service providers that failure to comply with the order would invite a fine of $142,000 per day. Today’s blackout comes courtesy of judge Marcel Maia Montalvão, who previously ordered Facebook’s vice president for Latin America to be detain