‼️ Russia blocked access to one of our platforms, OONI Explorer: a large open dataset on internet censorship worldwide
https://explorer.ooni.org

OONI Explorer documents the blocking of OONI Explorer in #Russia. 🐙

Learn more through our latest report: https://ooni.org/post/2024-russia-blocked-ooni-explorer/

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OONI Explorer - Open Data on Internet Censorship Worldwide

OONI Explorer is an open data resource on Internet censorship around the world consisting of more than a billion measurements on network interference.

On 11th September 2024, we received an email from Roskomnadzor, informing us of their decision to block access to OONI Explorer.

On the same day, OONI data shows that ISPs in #Russia started implementing the block.

Learn more: https://ooni.org/post/2024-russia-blocked-ooni-explorer/

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Russia blocked OONI Explorer, a large open dataset on Internet censorship

This report documents the blocking of OONI Explorer in Russia based on OONI data.

While Roskomnadzor mentioned their intention to restrict access to the Russian translation of circumvention tool reachability measurements, in practice, the restriction is far-reaching.

The block restricts access to all OONI data hosted on OONI Explorer.
https://ooni.org/post/2024-russia-blocked-ooni-explorer/

#ooni #censorship #opendata #russia

Russia blocked OONI Explorer, a large open dataset on Internet censorship

This report documents the blocking of OONI Explorer in Russia based on OONI data.

On some networks in #Russia, we are able to automatically confirm the blocking of OONI Explorer based on fingerprints.

For example, OONI data shows that DNS resolution returns an IP that hosts a block page.
https://ooni.org/post/2024-russia-blocked-ooni-explorer/

#ooni #censorship #opendata

Russia blocked OONI Explorer, a large open dataset on Internet censorship

This report documents the blocking of OONI Explorer in Russia based on OONI data.

On most networks in #Russia, access to OONI Explorer appears to be blocked by means of TLS interference.

Many measurements resulted in timeout errors & connection reset errors right after the Client Hello message during the TLS handshake.
https://ooni.org/post/2024-russia-blocked-ooni-explorer/

#ooni #censorship #opendata

Russia blocked OONI Explorer, a large open dataset on Internet censorship

This report documents the blocking of OONI Explorer in Russia based on OONI data.