Brazilian internet providers are not allowed to block sites on their own, so blocks come from orders: from courts, from the Ministries of Finance and Justice against betting sites, and from the film agency Ancine against piracy. The regulator Anatel passes the orders on, and each provider applies them in its DNS (the internet's address book, which then says the site does not exist or gives a wrong address) or by blocking IP addresses (the numeric addresses of servers). A legitimate site that shares an IP address with a blocked server can be caught too, as Anatel itself warns; a test through each provider's own connections shows whether yours is.
Sources: Câmara dos Deputados, Law 12.965/2014 (art. 9) · Câmara dos Deputados, MP 1.394, 25 September 2026 (art. 23) · Ancine, 10 April 2026 · Tele.Síntese, 8 April 2024 · Olhar Digital, 5 October 2026 · Jornal de Brasília (Folhapress), 13 May 2026 · OONI, 3 September 2024
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The page is opened through home and mobile connections of Claro and Vivo and home connections of Nio, Brisanet and Giga+ Fibra and mobile connections of TIM, the way their customers would open it, and the answer comes provider by provider.
Who can order a site blocked in Brazil?
A court, a ministry or a federal agency, not the provider on its own: the Marco Civil da Internet (Law 12.965 of 2014) forbids providers to block, monitor, filter or analyse the content of the data they carry. Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes had X blocked in 2024 and the video platform Rumble suspended in February 2025. Ancine can order pirate content blocked by administrative decision, and since 25 September 2026 the Ministries of Finance and of Justice can request blocks of betting sites.
Sources: Câmara dos Deputados, Law 12.965/2014 (art. 9) · OONI, 3 September 2024 · O Tempo, 5 February 2026 · Ancine, 10 April 2026 · Câmara dos Deputados, MP 1.394, 25 September 2026 (art. 23)
The ECA Digital (Law 15.211 of 2025), in force since 17 March 2026, requires sites with pornography to check the user's age at every visit, without self-declaration. Only a court can suspend a service that breaks it; if the service does not comply, the blocking order goes to internet providers, internet exchange points (places where networks connect to each other) and DNS services.
Source: Câmara dos Deputados, Law 15.211/2025 (arts. 9, 35 and 41-A)
What does the September 2026 betting ban mean for my site?
Provisional measure MP 1.394, a presidential decree with the force of law, has been in force since 25 September 2026. It bans offering and advertising fixed-odds betting on sports and online games in Brazil, including by operators based abroad that serve people in Brazil. Federal licences ended after 30 days, so a licence held before the ban no longer protects a site; operators had ten days to take their sites and apps offline or be blocked. Anatel passes the ministries' requests for blocking or redirection to internet providers, and orders on .br names go to CGI.br, the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee.
Source: Câmara dos Deputados, MP 1.394, 25 September 2026 (arts. 1, 4, 7, 23 and 30)
A decision by the President of Congress, Davi Alcolumbre, published in the official gazette on 11 November 2026, extended the measure by 60 days; unless Congress passes it into law by 4 March 2027, it loses effect.
Source: O Tempo, 11 November 2026
After the ban the two ministries asked for 5,209 betting domains to be taken down, and Anatel notified about 21,000 telecom providers; by 29 September 2026 it had ordered 2,387 of them taken down. A consultant to providers, writing in Convergência Digital, says Anatel's letter of 29 September listed about 500 IP addresses and 500 domains to block at once. Providers block the addresses at their routers or firewalls and the domains in DNS, and most type such lists in by hand.
Sources: Jornal Grande Bahia, 30 September 2026 · Convergência Digital, column by Fabrício Viana, checked 12 November 2026
Visitors to a blocked betting site may land on the government page brasilsembets.gov.br instead. Headed "Acesso bloqueado" (access blocked), it says the platform they tried to open is offline by order of MP 1.394/26.
Source: Federal Government, Brasil sem Bets, checked 12 November 2026
Can an Ancine anti-piracy block take my site down?
It can. Anatel's own guide to blocking, as reported by Folhapress in May 2026, warns that an IP block can take down legitimate sites, because many pages sit behind one IP address, as they do on a CDN (a network that serves many sites from the same addresses).
Source: Jornal de Brasília (Folhapress), 13 May 2026
Law 14.815 of 2024 lets Ancine stop unauthorised use of audiovisual works by administrative decision. Its rules, Instrução Normativa 174 of 10 April 2026, cover apps and TV-box services as well as websites and promise faster procedures for live broadcasts. Ancine says it now uses "dynamic" blocking of domains and IP addresses, which watches for redirects to defeat attempts to get around a block. Pilot projects with Anatel blocked more than 10,700 targets. From April 2025 to April 2026 Ancine ordered 23,938 IP addresses and 4,161 sites suspended, according to figures obtained under the access-to-information law.
Sources: Ancine, 10 April 2026 · Núcleo, 12 May 2026
Why a datacenter uptime monitor misses such a block:Why datacenter monitors miss ISP blocks.
What does a block look like to a visitor in Brazil?
For the court and anti-piracy blocks documented so far, a browser error, not a notice from the provider. Anatel's guide says blocks are made in DNS, with servers set up to "pretend" the site does not exist. When X was blocked in 2024, OONI, an open project that measures internet censorship, found the block on more than 25 networks, including TIM, Vivo and V.tal. Depending on the network, failed tests showed either signs of IP blocking, so the connection timed out, or a DNS answer saying the name does not exist or pointing to 127.0.0.1, the address of the visitor's own computer.
Sources: Jornal de Brasília (Folhapress), 13 May 2026 · OONI, 3 September 2024
Blocks can also lapse without notice. Rumble opened again in Brazil on 5 February 2026, a year after its suspension, and again on the evening of 4 October 2026, while the order was still valid. Anatel said the providers themselves carry out blocks, and that evidence of access without workarounds, naming the provider, the connection type and the date and time of the test, could be sent to it for review.
Sources: O Tempo, 5 February 2026 · Olhar Digital, 5 October 2026
Which providers do people in Brazil use?
Vivo, Claro and TIM hold most mobile subscriptions, while home internet is split among many providers. Anatel's competition report for the third quarter of 2026 gives these shares, as of August 2026:
| Provider | Home broadband lines | Mobile subscriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Claro | 18.8% | 33.0% |
| Vivo | 14.8% | 37.8% |
| TIM | not listed | 22.0% |
| Nio | 6.0% | not listed |
| Brisanet | 2.7% | not listed |
| Giga+ Fibra | 2.2% | not listed |
Source: Anatel, Relatório de Monitoramento da Competição 3T2026 (figures 6 and 11)
Nio started in March 2025 with almost 4 million former Oi Fibra customers and runs on the network of V.tal, a sister company.
Source: Teletime, 10 March 2025
What does linkspect check in Brazil?
A check opens your URL through the home internet of Claro, Vivo, Nio, Brisanet and Giga+ Fibra customers and the mobile connections of Claro, Vivo and TIM customers. You can also include the home internet of TIM, Algar Telecom, Desktop, Vero, Unifique and Brasil TecPar, and Brisanet, Algar Telecom and Unifique mobile, in a check; they are measured when a suitable test connection is available, and otherwise that answer says "not measured". Results may be incomplete: the addresses of the providers' own DNS servers are not verified yet, so a DNS block is marked "likely" at most, and a page that opened can show as grey "Not verified" when the main check for Brazil could not be done (verdict reference).
Facts checked on 12 November 2026.