The social network created by Donald Trump, Truth Social, and the Rumble video platform came in with a injunction In a United States Court against the Supreme Court Minister (STF) Alexandre de Moraes. The information is from the Reuters news agency.
The request seeks to prevent orders issued by the minister, on the grounds that they “They violate American sovereignty, the constitution and laws of the United States”. They also said Moraes threatened to criminally process Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski.
On Friday, 21, Moraes was indefinitely, until the platform complied with the court orders and the payment of fines. This is because before he had ordered the company to appoint legal representatives in the country.
The STF has already defined that Foreign platforms need to be representatives in Brazil to receive subpoenas and answer for the companies.
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In an order, the minister stated that the platform has incurred “repeated, conscious and volunteer in mind of judicial orders, besides the attempt not to submit to the Brazilian legal system and judiciary.”
“Chris Pavlovski confuses freedom of expression with nonexistent freedom of aggressiondeliberately confuses censorship with constitutional prohibition on hate discourse and incitement to undemocratic acts, ”wrote Moraes.
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Besides requiring the indication of a legal representative, the Minister had also determined the blockade of the channel of blogger Allan dos Santos and the interruption of monetization transfers to the influencer. It also ordered new influencer profiles to be barred. Other social networks, such as Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, were notified to block Allan dos Santos’s accounts and complied with Moraes’s decisions.
O STF could not summon Rumble Because the company does not have a responsible in Brazil. Located lawyers reported that they are not legal representatives of the platform and have no power to receive citations or subpoenas. On February 17, they resigned their mandate to act on social network causes.
Rumble moves one in the United States, together with Trump Media, linked to the US President. The companies claim that the STF minister violated US sovereignty by ordering the suspension of Allan dos Santos’s profile. The blogger has had pre -trial detention decreed in 2021 and has been on the run since.
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Rumble returned to work in Brazil in February this year. The platform, which establishes a less restricted content of content moderation, was disabled in the country in December 2023 for disagreeing with the requirements of Brazilian justice. It is known for housing extreme right personalities and users.
