Six major pornographic websites have been blocked by at least one mayor ISPs in recent days, including some of the most well-known international sites of this content. The state-owned ISP, CANTV blocked all six, while all other providers checked started blocking at least one of them. This is not the first time that adult content has been censored in Venezuela, most notably in the state ISP several porn sites had been blocked in the past, to then be unblocked and briefly again in October 2020.

The previous time they were blocked occurred as CANTV reinstated many HTTP/HTTPS blocks that were lifted when a networking facility in Caracas was damaged by fire, presumably affecting censorship capacity. Of the sites blocked in October 2020, 26% were porn sites. They were last blocked in October 15, 2020.


The internet providers involved in these blocks are: CANTV, Movistar Digitel, NetUno, Supercable and Inter. In this case, the censorship in CANTV operates through an HTTP block that began on March 2, while a DNS block was applied by Movistar, Digitel, Inter and NetUno since March 9. Supercable started the block a few weeks later on March 29.

The pages affected by the blocks are the following:

Website CANTV Movistar Digitel NetUno Supercable Inter
XVideos HTTP Block DNS Block DNS Block DNS Block DNS Block DNS Block
XHamster HTTP Block DNS Block Accessible DNS Block DNS Block Accessible
Pornhub HTTP Block DNS Block Accessible Accessible Accessible DNS Block
Bravotube HTTP Block Accessible Accessible Accessible Accessible Accessible
Youporn HTTP Block Accessible Accessible Accessible Accessible Accessible
Tube8 HTTP Block Accessible Accessible Accessible Accessible Accessible

Recommendations to internet users in Venezuela

We recommend the use of trustworthy internet circumvention tools for users in Venezuela. We recommend having several of the following tools installed in the event that one of them is blocked: