The Judicial Committee of the Chamber of, equivalent to the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) in Brazil, summoned eight Big Techs to provide information on orders from the Minister, (Supreme Court).
The intention is to gather evidence of “how international censorship has wounded US civil freedoms,” according to the collegiate’s statement.
“American companies are sounding the alarm about how foreign censorship harms US civil freedoms. Ax has resisted arbitrary court orders in Brazil and Australia that require global content removal,” says the document sent to companies.
In another stretch, the letter cites the name of Moraes. “In Brazil, Federal Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes issued, under confidential, illegal orders that force American companies to remove large amounts of content or face fines and be banned from the country.”
The letter sent was sent to Rumble Christopher Pavlovski, Linda Yaccarino, X (former Twitter), Mark Zuckerberg, Meta (Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp), Andrew Jassy, Amazon, Apple’s Tim Cook, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai (Google), Satya Nadella, from Microsoft, and a Tiktok responsible in the US.
The president of the board, republican deputy Jim Jordan, summoned them to send the orders to which companies were targeted in several countries, which can mean sending sensitive decisions.
The call was made within the project analysis process approved in the collegiate on Wednesday (26) that imposes sanctions on foreign authorities who violate the first amendment, of freedom of expression.
The proposal “At Censorship on Our Shores Act” (without censors in our territory) establishes deportation and the entry veto in the US.
The approval of the proposal occurred on the same day as the. The Donald Trump government agency said that punishing US companies for refusing to practice censorship goes against democratic values.
The US government statement refers to Moraes’s determination to suspend the Rumble platform in Brazil, on the grounds that the company fails to comply with judicial decisions.
The Lula (PT) government said the president’s management “distorted” the court’s orders and lamented what he called “attempt to politicize court decisions.”
On Thursday, he defended him the sovereignty of Brazil and stated that the country was no longer a colony in 1822. Without citing the United States, the magistrate cited Brazil’s independence and the construction of the (United Nations) against Nazism.
Trump’s allies offensive against the minister was expanded days after the deputy (-SP) had, as the Sheet, and in the face of an offensive of Trump’s allies against Moraes,
(PL) son has made a tour in recent weeks asking for US authorities sanctions against the STF minister. They want the revocation of the magistrate’s visa to the United States as a way to press the other ministers of the Supreme and alleviate the process of analysis of the accusations against the former president-difficult to occur.
