Exhibit 1128 · Court order
Supremo Tribunal Federal, Pet 12.404/DF, Decision of Justice Alexandre de Moraes (suspension of X in Brazil), 30 August 2024
A SUSPENSÃO IMEDIATA, COMPLETA E INTEGRAL DO FUNCIONAMENTO DO “X BRASIL INTERNET LTDA” em território nacional, até que todas as ordens judiciais proferidas nos presentes autos sejam cumpridas, as multas devidamente pagas e seja indicado, em juízo, a pessoa física ou jurídica representante em território nacional.
Portuguese-language decision in a criminal investigation opened on a Federal Police report (obstruction of criminal-organization investigations; incitement to crime) into the exposure and threatening of federal police delegates and their families. It recounts the 7 August 2024 order that Twitter Inc. block the listed accounts within two hours or pay R$50,000 a day, and orders the 'immediate, complete and full' suspension of X Brasil Internet Ltda. in Brazil until all orders are met, fines paid and a legal representative named in Brazil, with ANATEL to carry it out, and orders Apple and Google to remove the X app and VPN apps and imposes a R$50,000 daily fine on users who use VPNs to keep using X (p. 50). The decision lifts secrecy on itself. The Court later (27 September, 1 and 8-9 October 2024) found the accounts blocked, a representative named and fines paid, and authorized X to resume (per the Columbia case summary, exhibit columbia-2024-x-ban-brazil).
- Source
- Supremo Tribunal Federal (Brazil), Justice Alexandre de Moraes (rapporteur); joined by the First Panel on 2-3 September 2024
- Date
- 30 August 2024
- Quoted from
- Decision, dispositive paragraph (1), p. 49 (document p. 49 of 51)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1-Decision-08.30-Portuguese-MAIN-DECISION.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Source is the Columbia Global Freedom of Expression copy of the STF decision; replace with the STF portal copy (code 464B-AE3A-9603-87AD per the document's authentication stamp). Portuguese original; English wording in the summary is the researcher's translation.