 In May 2015, Juan Carlos Alemán, a Venezuelan official speaking on television, announced that the Venezuelan government was in the process of removing the use of servers from Google and Mozilla and using Venezuelan satellites in order to have more control over the internet of Venezuelans.By 2017, Freedom House declared in its "Freedom on the Net 2017" report that Venezuela's internet was ranked as "not free", citing the blockage of social media applications, political content being blocked, attacks of online reports by law enforcement and the arrests of internet users.Since late-2017, the Venezuelan government censored the website "El Pitazo", blocking it with DNS methods.