US Judge decided that platform need not follow orders from STF minister
O, video sharing platform, celebrated on Tuesday (25.FEV.2025) that of the United States that disobeys the company and (Trump Media & Technology Group) following the orders of Alexandre de Moraes, Minister of ( Federal Supreme Court).
In a statement issued on the company’s website, Rumble says the court’s decision “confirmed”What the company has“Defended from the beginning: Judge Alexandre de Moraes’s censorship orders have no legal strength in the United States ”. Read A, in English (PDF – 102 KB).
Rumble in Brazil by determination of Moraes. The measure was taken after the company failed to comply with court orders.
The platform, as well as TMTG with an action in US courts to prevent the effects of the determination and accused the magistrate from censorship. TMTG, which belongs to US President Donald Trump (Republican Party), says the group’s social network has not been directly affected, but it depends on Rumble’s technology for video hosting.
On Tuesday (25.FEV), he understood that the orders of the Brazilian Minister do not apply in the US.
Rumble’s text qualifies the judge’s decision as a “Total victory for freedom of expression, digital sovereignty and the law of US companies to operate without foreign legal interference ”.
For the company, the United States Court sent a “Strong message to foreign governments” e “made it clear that if anyone tries to apply illegal orders to US soil, [o tribunal] It will be ready to intervene to protect US companies and freedom of expression. ”
The Court’s decision cites the Hague Convention and a mutual legal assistance treaty between the United States and Brazil, the US-Brazil Mlat. According to the judge, agreements require specific notification to be valid in another country.
“This means that Rumble and Trump Media have no obligation to fulfill these illegal censorship requirements and no US entity is required to apply them,” said the platform.
Read the full statement in Portuguese
“A total victory for Rumble and Trump Media:
“Declaration on the decision of the US Court about the Moraes Directive
“Today, the United States Court for the Florida Middle District has confirmed what we have defended from the beginning: Judge Alexandre de Moraes’s censorship orders have no legal strength in the United States. This decision is a total victory for freedom of expression, digital sovereignty and the law of US companies to operate without foreign legal interference.
“The court explicitly determined that the Moraes directives have never adequately attended to US or international laws, maintaining that they were not delivered through the Hague Convention, the US-Brazil’s Mutual Assistance Treaty (Mlat) or any other Valid legal mechanism. This means that Rumble and Trump Media have no obligation to comply with these illegal censorship requirements and no US entity is required to apply them.
“The court also made it clear that if anyone tries to apply illegal orders to US soil, they will be ready to intervene to protect US companies and freedom of expression. The decision sends a strong message to foreign governments that they cannot circumvent US law to censor US platforms.
“This case never said about Rumble or Trump Media – respect to prevent foreign judges from trying to silence [liberdade] expression in the United States. Today’s decision confirms that Moraes’s authoritarian censorship campaign has no place in the United States, and that its excesses will not be tolerated.
“Rumble and Trump Media will continue to fight for freedom of expression, and today’s decision is an important victory in this battle.”
RUMBLE SUSPENSION
STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes ordered Rumble’s suspension in Brazil after the platform did not comply with judicial decisions. They are:
- the removal of the profiles of journalist Allan dos Santos on the social network;
- Blocking the financial transfers received by him through advertising, registration of supporters and donations on the platform; and
- The indication and proof of a legal representative of the company in Brazil.
The social network, which returned to Brazil on February 8, was summoned by the minister to block the journalist’s accounts. At the time, the company’s lawyers responded that they had no legal powers to be summoned on behalf of Rumble Brazil and resigned.
Moraes then asked the Canadian company to indicate a legal representative in Brazil. In the order, the Minister of the Court cites that this figure is a requirement for a company based abroad to operate in Brazil. He also argued that the Internet Civil Marco establishes that a platform can be held responsible for the damage caused by the content of its users, if personal court decisions are not met.
In October 2021, Moraes had, among other measures, to block the profiles of Allan dos Santos on several social networks, including Rumble. The journalist, however, created other profiles, which Moraes continued to determine the blockade. Argued that the new accounts would be a “strategy” To circumvent previous decisions, as the content of publications was the same.
Next, the imbroglio timeline since February 8, 2025:
- 8.fev.2025 – Rumble in Brazil;
- 9.fev.2025 – Moraes intimates Rumble to suspend the profiles of Tuesday Livre, the pocketist journalist Allan dos Santos;
- 19.fev.2025 – Rumble and TMTG against Moraes;
- 20.fev.2025 – Moraes to Rumble appoint legal representative in Brazil;
- 21.fev.2025 – Moraes Rumble in Brazil;
- 22.fev.2025 -Rumble and TMTG the US Justice;
- 24.fev.2025 – Anatel and says platform is blocked almost all over the country.
- 25.fev.2025 – US Justice that Rumble and TMTG need not comply with orders from Moraes.
