Over the last couple of years, we had to witness American tech businesses suffering under the yoke of what amounts in the end to a ‘smalltown bully’, the tyrannical Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
That was happening as the Lula da Silva leftist regime was prodded by that easy USAID cash and also because the State Department and the CIA during the Joe Biden administration from hell were at the very least complacent and, at most, probably pulling the strings behind the scenes.
While his campaigns against X and Rumble got quite a lot of publicity, other companies such as META and Google were also targets of his judicial (and many times illegal) demands.
But now, there’s a new Sherrif in town, and in the US, some companies are gearing up to take the fight to Moraes in a fashion that he may not have been expecting.
Moraes has become the target of a lawsuit in the United States that was filed by the Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. and the video platform Rumble
Read: Brazil’s Tyrant Justice Moraes To Block X Platform In the Country – Musk Posts Meme Vowing To See Him Behind Bars The companies accuse Moraes of illegally attempting to impose ‘Brazilian censorship laws’ on companies based in the United States.
Gazeta do Povo reported on the allegations (edited and translated from the Portuguese by Tupi Report in Telegram):
exercising jurisdiction beyond Brazil by attempting to regulate digital content in the United States. According to the companies, the gag orders issued by Moraes cannot be enforced in the U.S. “No extraterritorial decree or judicial overreach from abroad can override the freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution and law,” they argue; violating U.S. sovereignty by attempting to impose sanctions and fines on American companies without adhering to international treaties between the two countries, such as the MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty).”
The plaintiffs claim that if Rumble does not comply with the tyrannical order, Moraes could pressure Apple and Google to remove the Rumble app from their online stores, harming the its operations.
“Although not directly affected, Truth Social, Trump’s social media network, states that it relies on Rumble’s technology for video hosting, which would negatively impact it if the platform’s operations were disrupted. “
These are, reportedly, the requests made in the lawsuit:
Comments
Leave a Comment