The Rumble Video Platform and Truth Social, the President of the President of the, asked an American Court on Saturday (23) an injunction – a decision of immediate and temporary compliance – against the minister, (Supreme Court).
Last week, the company now makes the urgent request for justice to consider unquestionable orders of the magistrate to networks in the United States so that they do not need to comply with them under penalty of “irreparable damage” to platforms. Rumble provides cloud services that support Truth Social.
Moraes ordered the video platform to end the account of the scholarship influencer Allan dos Santos and provides his user data. The company understands that the decision is illegal. If granted, the injunction does not prevent the platform from leaving air in Brazil, as Moraes determined on Friday (21).
The company justifies that the request for an immediate decision is justified because the minister “climbed” the orders last week and would also have threatened Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski, with criminal measures if he did not comply with his determinations.
“This case represents an extraordinary affront to the fundamental principles of free expression, sovereign authority and the rule of law,” says the action filed in the Florida district, where the company is based.
“A foreign jurist – Minister Moraes – not only demanded that Rumble, an American company, censors content in the United States, but has now given the unprecedented step of personally threatening the CEO of an American company with criminal proceedings for publicly calling orders publicly calling Extraterritorial censorship of Minister Moraes of ‘illegal’ and refusing to comply with them, “the injunction continues.
Rumble’s lawyer, Martin de Luca, says the request is necessary because the situation worsened last week after Moraes determines the withdrawal of the platform in Brazil.
“The injunction seeks to prevent Minister Moraes’s censorship orders from having an effect on the United States, where they are unconstitutional and violate federal laws,” Luca told Folha.
The company claims that orders are excessive and illegal because they violate the first American amendment, which deals with freedom of expression, and tries to censor channels in the United States, ignores established legal channels to give decisions.
It also contrasts the United States Law, which prohibit forced content removal and data delivery.
On Friday, Moraes ordered Rumble’s withdrawal in Brazil alleging court orders referring to the platform were not met – the determinations were confidential, but now the process was made public. For this reason, he had the platform take off until it meets its orders, including the payment of fines
The minister states that the measure is necessary in the face of “reiterated, conscious and volunteers in mind of judicial orders, besides the attempt not to submit to the Brazilian legal system and judiciary, to institute an environment of total impunity and ‘land without law’ in Brazilian social networks “.
Like (formerly), Moraes also ordered a representative to be nominated in Brazil of Rumble, a network that is popular among influencers on the right.
