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Starting in [20 minutes](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200703T170000): **IODA: Examining Internet blackouts through open data** with Ramakrishna Padmanabhan. * [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tBzCgjhTP0) Links: * https://ioda.caida.org/ * https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard * [Ethiopia ongoing shutdown](https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#view=inspect&entity=country/ET&lastView=overview&from=1593192460&until=1593797260) * Syria final exams [2020](https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#from=-1w&until=now&view=inspect&entity=country/SY&lastView=overview)...
There was a decrease in Tor relay users and an increase in Tor bridge users, mainly obfs4. https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2020-04-01&end=2020-08-15&country=by  https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2020-04-01&end=2020-08-15&country=by  (formerly velcom): https://explorer.ooni.org/measurement/20200809T064736Z_AS42772_Sn8W1QKfDMxmJzphNHpEWpYmWbyNQS09eB8wgpQQCYIASBbkPh?input=http://intimby.net/ ``` Доступ ограничен Доступ к информационному ресурсу ограничен на основании решения Министерства...
@fortuna analyzed Censored Planet data for Beltelecom on August 9–10, 2020, and made a sorted list of domains by interference rate. About 96% of tested domains experienced no interference, 3%...
In a series of articles, Ryan Gallagher reports that the block in Belarus was done, at least partially, using technology provided by [Sandvine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandvine). After facing criticism, on 2020-09-15 Sandvine cancelled...
[Belarus protests: From internet outages to pervasive website censorship](https://ooni.org/post/2020-belarus-internet-outages-website-censorship/) ([archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20200916172919/https://ooni.org/post/2020-belarus-internet-outages-website-censorship/)) [OONI](https://ooni.org/), [Human Constanta](https://humanconstanta.by/), and the [Digital Observers Community Belarus](https://t.me/zabynet) have a report on web page blocking in Belarus between 2020-08-01...
[Internet blocking in Belarus](https://www.qurium.org/alerts/belarus/internet-blocking-in-belarus) ([archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20200927191840/https://www.qurium.org/alerts/belarus/internet-blocking-in-belarus)) Qurium and Human Constanta have published a report giving details of how blocking is done on four ISPs in Belarus. * [Business Network](https://bn.by/) * HTTP...
> We're seeing a sudden drop of obfs4 usage in Belarus recently, and a rise in meek usage: [Link to relay graph](https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2021-01-01&end=2021-03-15&country=by) [Link to bridge graph](https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2021-01-01&end=2021-03-15&country=by) I [posted the graph](https://ntc.party/t/shift-in-tor-obfs4-and-meek-users-on-2021-02-13/890)...
SymTCP was the subject of the Tor anti-censorship team's reading group on 2020-04-16. There is a transcript of the discussion: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-04-16-17.59.log.html#l-49
Since 2022-02-26, some users in Russia are reporting blocking or throttling of Twitter domains. Unlike with Facebook, there was apparently no advance notice of action against Twitter, but Twitter itself...