✉️🇫🇷❌🏴 — Pavel Durov says that Telegram collaborates with the DGSI in cases of terrorism

➡️ During his first court hearing yesterday, Pavel Durov argued that Telegram had helped French domestic intelligence agency DGSI in terrorism cases, reports Le Parisien, yet excluding to help police services in other types of offenses.

«By infiltrating private groups […], police investigators have discovered unbearable pictures. In particular of the rape of a 4-month-old baby perpetrated in turn by two men. The video is real and the acts appear to have been committed in France. […]. Despite the extreme seriousness of the situation, Telegram reportedly did not deign to respond [to police requests] […]. Other police services [combating child abuse] agree: in recent years, Telegram has been absent whenever the courts ask it to make the slightest effort towards transparency.

➡️ Questioned at length on this subject during his police custody and again during his first appearance hearing before the investigating judge, Pavel Durov retorted, according to concordant sources, that Telegram's silence was on the contrary not systematic.

➡️ According to the billionaire [...], his company would be in the habit of collaborating with the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) in the context of anti-terrorist investigations. As soon as human lives are at stake, Telegram would thus comply with the requests of French intelligence through a specially designed communication channel.

➡️ Pavel Durov even claims to have helped foil terrorist plots and to have participated in the intelligence work of the DGSI in the run-up to the Olympic Games. But as he himself also admitted, Telegram would have chosen to limit its judicial cooperation to this anti-terrorist framework alone, excluding any collaboration with other police services on the pretext that the latter would use the communication channel reserved for the DGSI.

#BREAKING

🇧🇷❌❌ — Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice and de facto Dictator of Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, orders the immediate shutdown of Twitter/X in Brazil and its overseas territories

➡️ At any moment, the social network could become inaccessible in the country, as, by law, the Court is required to formally ask the country's communications regulator (ANATEL) to shut it down

➡️ Such a thing happens after Twitter/X refused to censor accounts belonging to the Brazilian Right-wing opposition without due process, trials or even warrants under the accusation that they "spread fake news" and/or "threaten democracy"

🇧🇷❌❌❗️ — Brazilian Supreme Court Justice and de facto Dictator of Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, issues an R$ 50,000 (~10,000 USD) fine for any Brazilian citizen using VPNs to overturn the ban on Twitter/X

➡️ Such a thing also happened when the same justice ordered the shutdown of Telegram in the past

➡️ As always, it is an order virtually impossible to enforce

https://news.1rj.ru/str/BellumActaNews/128215

🇧🇷⚖️🚫❌ — Alexandre de Moraes (STF) has ordered the removal of 𝕏 in Brazil within 24 hours, under penalty of malfeasance for those who do not comply with the order.

"The president of Anatel, Carlos Manuel Baigorri, must be notified, including through electronic means, to immediately take all necessary measures to enforce this decision, and report back to this Court within 24 hours at the latest."

📝 Admin Comment | In admin's honest view, in a measure to crackdown on the Brazilian opposition and save Democracy, Moraes just handed an delicious cake on the hands of it:

— Technically, all the "non-politized normies" will flee the network for "safe spots" as Meta Networks, Telegram and similars
— Brazilian virtual space will face the same phenomenon that Iranian, Belarusian, Chinese and Venezuelan ones face currently: It being overwhelming & largely a space supported by the opposition's narrative and its points of view.
— Political radicals will no longer see any kind of restriction to expose their views and desires
— Public figures will be purged from their biggest opinion chamber,
— Brazilian Government Propaganda, which relies on Twitter/X for 40% of its viewership, will be crushed even on the eyes of non-political normies
— The Brazilian opposition narrative that Brazil is under a dictatorship (it is) is entirely justified

https://news.1rj.ru/str/BellumActaNews/128216

🇧🇷 — For my Brazilian homies, I leave these services below:

➡️ https://protonvpn.com/

➡️ https://mullvad.net/pt

➡️ https://www.tunnelbear.com/

➡️ https://nordvpn.com/

🇧🇷🤡🇧🇷⚖️🚫👤❌ — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) supported the action to block the social network X across the country

➡️ Lula's support for Moraes was signaled this morning, a day after Musk said he would not comply with Moraes's order to resume X's representation in Brazil.

“If the Supreme Court has made a decision that requires a citizen to comply with certain things, then they must comply, or else they will have to take other measures. It’s not because someone has a lot of money that they can disrespect!

If not, this country will never be sovereign. This country is not one with a sense of inferiority, where just because someone is American shouts, we get scared. This person has to accept the rules of this country, and if this country has made a decision through the Supreme Court, they have to comply. If it applies to me, it applies to him.”

💬 The leftist president also stated that the company, like any other foreign entity operating in the country, needs to have legal representation as required by law, but he avoided commenting on whether Moraes’s orders are legal or not.

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👤❌⚠️🇧🇷⚖️ — The Global Government Affairs account on the social network 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) confirms that it has not appointed a new legal representative in Brazil, already anticipating that the network will be blocked in the country, and challenges the other members of the Supreme Court: "The colleagues of Minister Alexandre de Moraes in the Supreme Federal Court are either unable or unwilling to confront him."

📝 See the full statement below:

"Soon, we expect Judge Alexandre de Moraes will order X to be shut down in Brazil – simply because we would not comply with his illegal orders to censor his political opponents. These enemies include a duly elected Senator and a 16-year-old girl, among others.

When we attempted to defend ourselves in court, Judge de Moraes threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment. Even after she resigned, he froze all of her bank accounts. Our challenges against his manifestly illegal actions were either dismissed or ignored. Judge de Moraes’ colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unwilling or unable to stand up to him.

We are absolutely not insisting that other countries have the same free speech laws as the United States. The fundamental issue at stake here is that Judge de Moraes demands we break Brazil’s own laws. We simply won’t do that. In the days to come, we will publish all of Judge de Moraes’ illegal demands and all related court filings in the interest of transparency.

Unlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders. To our users in Brazil and around the world, X remains committed to protecting your freedom of speech."

Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) on 𝕏 🖇