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But when you use that jurisdiction to order something that is literally impossible, you don't sound powerful, just stupid.

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But its not impossible. If you make decryption impossible, the law can require you to not make it so. If you're a commercial entity, and you don't follow the law, you can be dissolved.

This is XKCD 101: https://xkcd.com/538/

Except that Facebook is not a Brazilian company. They would just leave the country instead.

And that's entirely possible.

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