[ooni-talk] Spanish government is censoring websites regarding Catalan referendum

Pablo Castellano pablo at anche.no
Mon Sep 25 13:11:34 UTC 2017


Hi all,

The Spanish government is blocking websites that contain information about the referendum that will happen in Catalonia next 1st
October (along with other repressive measures) and is suing people that keeps publishing web mirrors.

Note that the .cat domains seem to be seized (last week Police raided the offices of the .cat domain registry, seized some
computers and arrested their head IT) while other TLDs are just DNS hijacked by the Spanish Internet providers.

I've made a pull request to include some of these urls in the list of domains checked by OONI.

You can read more about it in the following links:
- https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/issues/221
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/cat-domain-casualty-catalonian-independence-crackdown
- https://medium.com/@josepot/is-sensitive-voter-data-being-exposed-by-the-catalan-government-af9d8a909482


Thanks for your work!
Pablo

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