Venezuela

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-05

Venezuela has no social-media minor-access restriction, app-store age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code recorded here. The Ley Especial contra los Delitos Informáticos criminalizes exhibiting, disseminating, transmitting, or selling pornographic or adults-only material through an information-technology medium without first giving warnings that let the user restrict access by children and adolescents, which is the located adult-content age-gating duty.

The same statute's separate offence for using a child's person or image for exhibitionist or pornographic ends criminalizes child sexual abuse material but does not itself impose an age-verification or access-restriction duty on a publisher of adult content generally, so no instrument is recorded for it here.

The Ley de Responsabilidad Social en Radio, Televisión y Medios Electrónicos, as reformed to reach electronic media, sets content-classification and scheduling rules for broadcast and electronic media, but the operative text of its current consolidated form is not reproduced in the copies available here, so no instrument is recorded for it.

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Instruments on record

Ley Especial contra los Delitos Informáticos, adult-content access-warning duty (Art. 23)

In force

LECDI, Gaceta Oficial N° 37.313, 30/10/2001, art. 23

Effective 2001-11-29 · Applies to both

Article 23 punishes anyone who, through any medium involving the use of information technology, exhibits, disseminates, transmits, or sells pornographic material or material reserved to adults, without first giving the due warnings for the user to restrict access by children and adolescents. The duty is a warning requirement rather than a specified verification or age-gating mechanism, and the statute does not describe what form the warning must take.

Source: Full text of law