Service blocking
During the Venezuelan presidential crisis of 2019, authorities briefly blocked Instagram to censor a livestreamed opposition public address.
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Venezuela
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Freedom House rates Internet freedom as Not Free
Other supporting information
Instagram was temporarily blocked on Friday, 25th January 2019. OONI data, illustrated below, corroborates this report.
Source: Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) data: Venezuela, https://explorer.ooni.io/country/VE
The above graph shows that all OONI measurements testing instagram.com between 2pm UTC to 3:30pm UTC presented HTTP failures (likely due to SNI filtering), suggesting that the site was temporarily blocked by CANTV. The testing of twitter.com also presented some anomalies on 26th January 2019, but the limited volume of measurements limits our ability to confirm potential blocking. Facebook and YouTube, on the other hand, did not show any signs of network interference over the following days.
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