# Sustained censorship in NL (2026-07)

**Country:** 🇳🇱 Netherlands (NL)
**Date:** 2026-07-05
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 7 days of elevated network interference averaging 93.0% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 80%
- Measurements: 7
- Anomaly Rate: 93.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 7 distinct ASNs in NL (12 confirmed of 396 measurements, 2026-07-05..2026-07-19)
  - Observed: 2026-07-05
  - Confidence: 97%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=NL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=anonymouse.org&since=2026-07-05&until=2026-07-19&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in NL (4 confirmed of 362 measurements, 2026-07-05..2026-07-19)
  - Observed: 2026-07-05
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=NL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.anonymizer.ru&since=2026-07-05&until=2026-07-19&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 4 distinct ASNs in NL (5 confirmed of 317 measurements, 2026-07-05..2026-07-19)
  - Observed: 2026-07-05
  - Confidence: 97%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=NL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org&since=2026-07-05&until=2026-07-19&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 4 distinct ASNs in NL (5 confirmed of 327 measurements, 2026-07-05..2026-07-19)
  - Observed: 2026-07-05
  - Confidence: 97%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=NL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.hrc.org&since=2026-07-05&until=2026-07-19&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in NL (5 confirmed of 323 measurements, 2026-07-05..2026-07-19)
  - Observed: 2026-07-05
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=NL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=khilafah.net&since=2026-07-05&until=2026-07-19&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in NL (8 confirmed of 335 measurements, 2026-07-05..2026-07-19)
  - Observed: 2026-07-05
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=NL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=lambdalegal.org&since=2026-07-05&until=2026-07-19&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in NL (3 confirmed of 337 measurements, 2026-07-05..2026-07-19)
  - Observed: 2026-07-05
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=NL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.humanrightsfirst.org&since=2026-07-05&until=2026-07-19&only=confirmed)

## 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.
- **Independent corroboration** — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

## Data Sources

ooni

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Sustained censorship in NL (2026-07) [NL-2026-0029]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/NL-2026-0029

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-07-21*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: NL-2026-0029*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/NL-2026-0029*