# Censorship detected in BY

**Country:** 🇧🇾 Belarus (BY)
**Date:** 2026-08-02
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements: 4
- Anomaly Rate: 100.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 36/36 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=BY&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-02&until=2026-08-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 31/31 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=BY&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-02&until=2026-08-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 35/35 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=BY&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-02&until=2026-08-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 30/30 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=BY&test_name=tor&since=2026-08-02&until=2026-08-03&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for protonvpn.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for twitter.com
  - Observed: 2026-08-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)

## 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.
- **Which networks** — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- **The mechanism** — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- **A confirmed duration** — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.

## Data Sources

ooni, censoredplanet

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in BY [BY-2026-1478]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/BY-2026-1478

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-08-03*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: BY-2026-1478*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/BY-2026-1478*