Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered video sharing platform Rumble to be taken offline in the Latin American country within 24 hours.
In his decision, Moraes said Rumble has not complied with court orders, such as appointing a legal representative for Brazil. Moraes also said the video platform must pay pending legal fines.
Moraes: Rumble must take down platform of Allan Dos Santos
Rumble has “repeatedly, consciously and willingly not complied, and is trying not to submit to Brazil’s legal order and judiciary,” Moraes asserted.
Moraes also said Rumble refused to comply with a court order that mandated the platform take down the channel of Brazilian conservative journalist Allan dos Santos.
Dos Santos, who is based in the southern US state of Florida, is a staunch supporter of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. He is a fugitive in Brazil for his role in spreading disinformation, with Moraes seeking the extradition of Dos Santos.
Rumble accuses Moraes of ‘unprecedented censorship’
In response, Rumble said the platform is experiencing “unprecedented censors
9 Comments
blackeyeblitzar
Alexandre de Moraes strikes again, with his sweeping anti democratic censorship orders. This man likes to suppress his political opposition – previously that meant banning individual users or deleting content but now it means entire platforms.
Many journalists and nonprofits have called him a threat to Brazilian democracy for good reason (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/world/americas/brazil-ale…). Also see this comparison of the Brazilian constitution and example censorship orders from de Moraes (https://x.com/alexandrefiles/status/1829979981130416479/phot…).
unocard
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loufe
I'm an avid reader of Glenn Greenwald (of the Snowden mass-surveillance revelations) and he's been talking about the lawsuit they're bringing against the government following this. I really love the type non-partisan journalism that he practices and hope they manage to shut this nonsense down.
dyauspitr
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verisimi
What's with all the flagged and dead comments?
Reading them, they mostly seem acceptably divergent political opinion, nothing that worrisome imo.
cesarb
For things like that, I always like to go to the source, and read the original order. It's the PDF at the bottom of this page: https://noticias.stf.jus.br/postsnoticias/stf-determina-susp… (it also has a link to a page with the PDF of the earlier order from two days ago).
victor22
Brazilian here. This guy is the most power crook in power, and he's definetely has been abusing it, many similar cases. The guys from Rumble are lucky they are not in Brazil, otherwise they would be fucked, extortion for sure (pay or go to jail / get fucked).
Also, google him, he looks exactly like a evil movie villain, and he has this nasty villan look all the time.
almosthere
Honestly we need a NATO of internet.
If any country bans speech, they lose ALL internet access. Then send the country a message: "You requested to be shut off from a specific IP, so we blocked x.x.x.x/0"
betaby
Moraes issues about ~10 domains bans per week, every week.
It's nothing new.
However we (English speakers) hear only about high profile sites.