‼️ 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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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/
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/
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/
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/
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