Brazilian Ministry of Justice orders betting sites to redirect traffic to government page, ANJL and IBJR ask Luiz Fux for injunction

Brazil’s ANJL and IBJR have asked Supreme Federal Court Justice Luiz Fux for urgent relief over a Ministry of Justice and Public Security order that would send users of fixed-odds betting sites to an official government domain starting at 0:01 on 6 October. Their core point is simple: the state is not just blocking access, it is trying to route private traffic to www.brasilsembets.gov.br.

1. The petition was filed on Saturday night (3) in ADI 8.027 and asks for a precautionary measure before 23:59 on Monday (5). The associations say the ministry’s letters reached their members through the Office of the National Secretariat for Digital Rights between the night of 2 October and 3 October, leaving less than three days to comply.
2. The documents are titled “Compliance with Article 23 of Provisional Measure No. 1.394/2026. Request for redirection of fixed-odds betting sites.” They order the redirection of “all websites, domains and internet applications” offering fixed-odds betting from 0:01 on 6 October, and say traffic to the listed platform addresses “shall be fully redirected” to the federal government page.
3. ANJL and IBJR argue that Article 23 of the MP does not authorize that result. In their reading, blocking and redirection are alternative technical ways to achieve the same end: stopping access to the site. Redirection, they say, is just the version where a user sees an unavailability notice instead of an error message.
4. The associations also object to the destination itself. Their petition says the rule does not set where redirection must go and does not allow a private domain, with audience built by the operator, to be turned into a government communication channel. They call that “true appropriation of private traffic” and say it would require an express legal basis.
5. They further challenge the ministry’s competence. According to the petition, Article 23 gives ministries the power to request blocking or redirection, not to order it. The ordinance mechanism, they argue, assigns blocking orders to Anatel for internet providers and to CGI.br for “.br” domains, while operators themselves were only required by Article 7 to make access to their sites and applications unavailable.