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<p>Hello Oonitarians,</p>
<p>Today, in collaboration with our friends at Virtual Road, OONI
published a post on the blocking of Catalan referendum sites.</p>
<p>You can read our post here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ooni.torproject.org/post/internet-censorship-catalonia-independence-referendum/">https://ooni.torproject.org/post/internet-censorship-catalonia-independence-referendum/</a></p>
<p>This report links to network measurements collected from three
local networks over the last week, examining the blocking of
domains associated to Catalonia's independence referendum.</p>
<p><b>Our findings confirm the blocking of 25 Catalan referendum
sites between 25th September 2017 (when OONI Probe testing
started) to 1st October 2017 (referendum day).</b><br>
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<p>France Telecom Espanya (AS12479) and Euskaltel (AS12338) blocked
these sites by means of DNS tampering, while Telefonica/Movistar
(AS3352) served block pages through the use of HTTP transparent
proxies.</p>
<p>While Telecom Espanya and Euskaltel were not found to be blocking
seized .cat domains, we found Telefonica to be serving block pages
even for .cat domains already seized.</p>
<p>This case highlights the need to measure internet censorship
everywhere, even in countries that we consider to be less likely
to censor information. <br>
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<p>We can't go back in time and run measurements, but we can always
be prepared. ;)</p>
<p>You can consider running OONI Probe in your country through our
installation information here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ooni.torproject.org/install/">https://ooni.torproject.org/install/</a></p>
<p>You can also explore OONI data further here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://explorer.ooni.torproject.org/world/">https://explorer.ooni.torproject.org/world/</a><br>
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<p>All the best,</p>
<p>Maria.<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>
PGP Key Fingerprint: 2DC8 AFB6 CA11 B552 1081 FBDE 2131 B3BE 70CA 417E</pre>
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