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Hello,<br>
<br>
Today, in collaboration with Sinar Project and the Thai Netizen
Network, the OONI project published a research report on "<b>The
State of Internet Censorship in Thailand</b>". <br>
<br>
You can view our joint report here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ooni.torproject.org/post/thailand-internet-censorship/">https://ooni.torproject.org/post/thailand-internet-censorship/</a><br>
<br>
Over the last 4 months, ooniprobe was run across 16 local vantage
points in Thailand, through which we collected and analyzed
thousands of network measurements with the aim of examining and
uncovering recent censorship events in the country. Our study also
includes an examination of Thailand's legal environment and network
landscape.<br>
<br>
The key findings of our study <b>confirm the blocking of 13
websites</b> in Thailand across 6 different ISPs, including the
following types of sites:<br>
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- <b>News outlets</b> (<b>nypost.com</b> and <b>dailymail.co.uk</b>)<br>
<br>
- <b>wikileaks.org</b><br>
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- <b>Circumvention tool sites</b> (such as hotspotshield.com)<br>
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- Pornography<br>
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Thai ISPs appear to primarily be implementing censorship through <b>DNS
hijacking</b> and through the use of <b>middle boxes</b> (HTTP
transparent proxies) which serve block pages. Since sites were not
found to be blocked across all networks, <i>Thai ISPs appear to be
blocking websites at their own discretion. </i><i><br>
<br>
</i>On a positive note, the Tor network, WhatsApp, and Facebook
Messenger were found to be accessible across all 16 networks in
Thailand where tests were run during the testing period (6th
November 2016 - 27th February 2017).<br>
<br>
Given the limited transparency around information controls in
Thailand and their potential for abuse, we encourage public debate
based on the findings of this study.<br>
<br>
Finally, we thank the OTF and Access Now for funding this research.
We also thank all the anonymous and brave volunteers in Thailand who
have run and continue to run ooniprobe, thus making this research
possible.<br>
<br>
Please contact us with any questions you may have! Feedback is
always welcome.<br>
<br>
~ The OONI team.<br>
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Maria Xynou
Research and Partnerships Coordinator
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ooni.torproject.org/">https://ooni.torproject.org/</a>
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