[ooni-talk] New Report: Azerbaijan and Armenia block TikTok amid border clashes

[Maria Xynou]

Hello,

Today OONI and Azerbaijan Internet Watch published a new research report
which shares *OONI data on the* *blocking of TikTok in Armenia and
Azerbaijan* during the border clashes over the last days.

Read our report here:
https://ooni.org/post/2022-azerbaijan-and-armenia-blocks-tiktok/

In *Azerbaijan*, OONI data shows:
* TikTok website & endpoints blocked on at least 3 networks;
* TLS level interference by dropping packets after noticing a disallowed
server_name;
* ISPs block TikTok based on different lists of TikTok endpoint domains.

In *Armenia*, OONI data shows:
* TikTok blocked on at least 2 networks;
* On most networks, TikTok interference observed at the DNS level by
returning an NXDOMAIN error, an IP address associated with www.google.com,
or a set of unrelated IP addresses which contain an expired certificate for
the server_name it.domain.name;
* Not all tested networks in Armenia implemented the TikTok block and
censorship techniques varied from network to network;
* Several endpoints used by the TikTok app and website are also blocked on
at least one network in Armenia.

Overall, OONI data shows that Azerbaijan blocked TikTok by means of TLS
level interference, while Armenia implemented both DNS level blocks and TLS
level interference.

Learn more through our report:
https://ooni.org/post/2022-azerbaijan-and-armenia-blocks-tiktok/

We thank OONI Probe users in Armenia and Azerbaijan who contributed
measurements, supporting this study.

You can continue to monitor the reachability of TikTok (and other
platforms) in Armenia and Azerbaijan through OONI data:
https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat

Thanks,

Maria.
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