# Sustained censorship in PL (2026-10)

**Country:** 🇵🇱 Poland (PL)
**Date:** 2026-10-23
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 6 days of elevated network interference averaging 90.0% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 80%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 6
- Anomaly Rate: 90.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in PL (11 confirmed of 63 measurements, 2026-10-09..2026-10-23)
  - Observed: 2026-10-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.888casino.com&since=2026-10-09&until=2026-10-23&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in PL (13 confirmed of 77 measurements, 2026-10-09..2026-10-23)
  - Observed: 2026-10-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.jackpotcitycasino1.com&since=2026-10-09&until=2026-10-23&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in PL (12 confirmed of 49 measurements, 2026-10-09..2026-10-23)
  - Observed: 2026-10-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=parimatch.com&since=2026-10-09&until=2026-10-23&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in PL (10 confirmed of 57 measurements, 2026-10-09..2026-10-23)
  - Observed: 2026-10-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.partypoker.com&since=2026-10-09&until=2026-10-23&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in PL (11 confirmed of 61 measurements, 2026-10-09..2026-10-23)
  - Observed: 2026-10-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.pokerstars.com&since=2026-10-09&until=2026-10-23&only=confirmed)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in PL (10 confirmed of 77 measurements, 2026-10-09..2026-10-23)
  - Observed: 2026-10-23
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PL&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=www.royalvegas.com&since=2026-10-09&until=2026-10-23&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** — fewer than two source labels appear in qualifying linked evidence; stored incident source labels may include quarantined OONI observations.

## Data Sources

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). Sustained censorship in PL (2026-10) [PL-2026-0045]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/PL-2026-0045

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-24*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: PL-2026-0045*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/PL-2026-0045*