# Censorship detected in BY

**Country:** 🇧🇾 Belarus (BY)
**Date:** 2025-01-25
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** WARNING
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

CenAlert detected interference. Impact: 0.6. Reported by: HTTPS blocking (timeout): 3/5 probes blocked (60.0%) for protonvpn.com.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 75%
- Measurements: 1
- Anomaly Rate: 0.6%

## Evidence

- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (timeout): 3/5 probes blocked (60.0%) for protonvpn.com
  - Observed: 2026-02-20
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 20/20 probes anomalous (100.0%) for getlantern.org
  - Observed: 2026-02-18
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 21/21 probes anomalous (100.0%) for pornhub.com
  - Observed: 2026-02-18
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 19/19 probes anomalous (100.0%) for protonvpn.com
  - Observed: 2026-02-18
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 20/20 probes anomalous (100.0%) for psiphon.ca
  - Observed: 2026-02-18
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 20/20 probes anomalous (100.0%) for xvideos.com
  - Observed: 2026-02-18
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (event): unknown
  - Observed: 2025-01-25
  - Confidence: 50%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://dashboard.censoredplanet.org/?country=BY)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- **Intent** — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

## Data Sources

censoredplanet

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in BY [BY-2025-0002]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/BY-2025-0002

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-06-21*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: BY-2025-0002*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/BY-2025-0002*