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Brazil lifts suspension on Telegram app, imposes daily fine over failure to surrender data on neo-Nazi activity

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Brazil on Saturday stopped blocking Telegram on Saturday after a federal judge partially revised a ruling suspending the social media app over its failure to surrender data on neo-Nazi activity. However, the judge kept in place a daily fine of $1 million reais (about $200,000) for Telegram’s refusal to provide the data, according to a press statement provided by the federal court that issued the ruling, an AP report said. ‘Complete suspension unreasonable’ Complete suspension “is not reasonable, given the broad impact throughout the national territory on the freedom of communication of thousands of people who are absolutely strangers to…

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