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What is your problem here? He does not shut down WhatsApp in total or request info for US user or anything like that, only in Brazil. This does not affect you at all. If they do not obey the law in another country, they do not get access there. Their activities in any other country do not change.

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One problem I have is free trade. Can the US just randomly ban one of Brazil's exports? I mean the US likely exports more to Brazil than imports from it but if this weren't the case...

The US have always strictly controlled what they imported (if only via tariff) and what they exported.

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