Include a section to post regular censorship observations

[agrabeli]

We often come across interesting data in OONI Explorer, when analyzing OONI's data, and/or when running tests. Perhaps it would be good to have a section of the website where we regularly post censorship observations?

I'm not suggesting a section for blogs or reports (we already have that). Instead, it could be something like "OONI's weekly/monthly observations", where we post the following:

• A few sentences explaining what was observed and why it is interesting (e.g. Vanilla Tor measurements in Egypt present anomalies - is Tor actually blocked in that network?).

• A link to the network measurement(s) on OONI Explorer (or elsewhere?)

The important thing here is that we don't make any bold statements about censorship (unless there's a block page), but rather just share our observations. Confirming a censorship event (when there's no block page) requires a fair amount of data analysis (based on the current state of the pipeline), and I'm not suggesting that we invest time in analyzing every single anomalous measurement we come across.

Instead, this would be a place for us to share things that triggered our interest/sparked our attention with the broader OONI community. That way, if someone has the skills/interest to analyze the data further, we will be providing them a starting point (or they could just check the reach-ability of a site if they are based in a country where the anomalous measurement is coming from).

By having this section (and updating it with posts regularly), we can keep our audience engaged with the project and this research in general. Also, it would be a way to outsource some of the analysis to those who are interested.

Thoughts?

[bassosimone]

[...] Thoughts?

I do not have specific thoughts except that it makes sense to have it. I like the idea.

[agrabeli]

An example of this is: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/belarus-fries-onion/

Once the data pipeline is in a better state, we can publish things like this more regularly.

[hellais]

I like this idea!

[agrabeli]

We're now working towards this by building the Censorship Incident Reporting Platform: https://github.com/ooni/ooni.org/issues/1301