# Censorship detected in BY

**Country:** 🇧🇾 Belarus (BY)
**Date:** 2026-09-02
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 4
- Anomaly Rate: 100.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 25/25 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=BY&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 23/23 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=BY&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 36/37 measurements anomalous (97.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=BY&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 28/28 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=BY&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (tcp-reset): 8/13 probes blocked (61.5%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (tcp-reset): 8/13 probes blocked (61.5%) for psiphon.ca
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](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.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — multiple qualifying evidence source labels do not establish target/time agreement or source independence.

## Data Sources

censoredplanet, ooni

These source labels come from qualifying linked evidence. Historical incident source labels and quarantined observations are excluded; multiple labels alone do not establish independent corroboration.

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in BY [BY-2026-1521]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/BY-2026-1521

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-14*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: BY-2026-1521*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/BY-2026-1521*