[tor-talk] tor-talk Digest, Vol 82, Issue 23

[Oshame Bryan]

Hello!
On 29 Nov 2017 13:00, <tor-talk-request at lists.torproject.org> wrote:

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>    1. Welcome All (Yael Cohen)
>    2. New report: How Pakistan blocked news outlets, social media
>       sites, and IM apps amidst protests (Maria Xynou)
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> From: Yael Cohen <ariel at ariellillicohen.co.il>
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> Shalom Welcome all
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> From: Maria Xynou <maria at openobservatory.org>
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> Subject: [tor-talk] New report: How Pakistan blocked news outlets,
>         social media sites, and IM apps amidst protests
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> Hello,
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> Today, in collaboration with Bytes for All Pakistan, OONI published a
> research study titled "How Pakistan blocked news outlets, social media
> sites, and IM apps amidst protests".
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> Our study is available here:
> https://ooni.torproject.org/post/how-pakistan-blocked-social-media/ and
> http://content.bytesforall.pk/node/224
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> Last weekend, a number of social media sites and news outlets were
> reportedly blocked in Pakistan during Islamist protests.
>
> Through the collection and analysis of OONI network measurements from
> Pakistan, we confirmed the DNS-based blocking of:
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> * 14 news websites
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> * Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram
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> * Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WhatsApp's web interface (web.whatsapp.com
> )
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> All of these censorship events were temporarily implemented last weekend
> (25th & 26th November), and no longer seem to be in place (at least not in
> the networks where tests were/are run). This highlights the need to
> monitor internet censorship on an ongoing basis around the world.
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> In our previous study with Bytes for All
> (https://ooni.torproject.org/post/pakistan-internet-censorship/),
> Pakistani ISPs appeared to be applying "smart filters", selectively
> blocking the HTTP versions of certain Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter
> webpages, rather than blocking access to entire domains.
>
> Last weekend, however, these sites were blocked entirely.
>
> This is also the first time that we have collected technical evidence on
> the censorship of news websites in Pakistan.
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> In addition to network measurement findings, our report also includes
> censorship circumvention advice and information on how to reproduce this
> study (in Pakistan or elsewhere).
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> Thanks for reading!
>
> ~ The OONI team.
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> Maria Xynou
> Research and Partnerships Coordinator
> Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
> https://ooni.torproject.org/
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