In just one week, from August 5 to 11, the Venezuelan government has blocked at least seven entertainment platforms, platforms for buying and selling goods and services, and cryptocurrencies.
The Nicolás Maduro administration continues to block platforms and social networks. This second weekend in August, Disney Plus and Max Latin America (Sunday 11), and Mercado Libre and Binance (Saturday 10), an important cryptocurrency exchange site, joined the list of blocked sites.
The information was shared by the NGO VE Sin Filtro, which keeps track of these types of restrictions imposed in Venezuela, which began to be more recurrent since the week before the presidential elections in the country.
This time the block is by DNS and is applied by the state-owned Cantv (National Telephone Company of Venezuela).
“There is no official explanation so far for these blockages on entertainment platforms (…) “We are simultaneously investigating other issues with online gaming platforms and live video streaming. If you have had problems accessing these types of services, please let us know,” the organization wrote on social media.
An HTTPS block was also detected in Cantv against microsoft·com, which impacted various services, as other subdomains such as teams∙microsoft∙com and accounts∙microsoft∙com were affected. This was in addition to the company’s main page www∙microsoft∙com.
On August 6, Nicolás Maduro, the current president of Venezuela, asked his followers to uninstall the private messaging service WhatsApp and use other similar services such as Telegram and WeChat. The next day, he said that Conatel had proposed uninstalling WhatsApp nationwide, to which he said he preferred to leave it “to conscience.”Set featured image
On the evening of August 8, it announced that it would block the X app (formerly Twitter) across the country. The following day, the Signal website was also reported to be blocked.
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