Category: Internet censorship

OONI Data Reveals How WhatsApp Was Blocked (Again) in Brazil

Following the latest reports of WhatsApp being blocked in Brazil, the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) ran tests locally in Brazil to detect the technical details of how censorship was implemented. This blog post includes a publication of our measurements, revealing that Brazilian ISPs blocked WhatsApp’s website through DNS hijacking.Read more here.Publisher: Open Observatory …

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OONI Explorer: Censorship and other Network Anomalies Around the World

Today the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) team is pleased to announce the public beta release of OONI Explorer: a global map of more than 8.5 million network measurements which have been collected across 91 countries around the world over the last 3 years.Read more here.Publisher: The Tor ProjectPublication date: 23rd March 2016