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I'm talking about the institutions that defend Brazilians' access to basic communications infrastructure in the face of any random judge trying to rule against mathematics.

Check the US for example, Apple was able to fight the government's request and prevail _before_ the government did anything about it, not after. In Brazil, Tim Cook would have been arrested right away.



If Brazil had an Apple equivalent, the situation would have been handled the same way. I wonder how many smaller companies in the US had to comply or die? See Lavabit [1]. I'm sure there are have been many other similar occurrences.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit




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