China's information controls must be read as separate content, network, erasure, and distribution measurements rather than one seductive national score.
The board detects movement, not motive
No current finding is published for Board alarm because the source status is stale. The board statistic tests whether named signals moved beyond their own histories; it does not identify one cause for the movement. No current finding is published for Coverage guard because the source status is stale.Receipts chinaevidence-886fc4c9f43bd80ad6a1, chinaevidence-aa296dabcfde04b7539f
Attention, silence, and erasure answer different questions
The current deletion-directive index ranks 218 terms with documented censorship provenance. No current finding is published for Silence index because the source status is stale. The current cross-layer erasure index is 41.6. The directive index counts provenance-bound terms, the silence index tests a predeclared blackout rule, and the erasure index summarizes heterogeneous layers; placing them together does not create one censorship rate.Receipts chinaevidence-4bef7722a9f13ac6e0b1, chinaevidence-f39c5d3e9e1e0539cf8e, chinaevidence-f58d7a794c4a86527e7e
Network measurements agree on scope, not on one denominator
The current coverage-weighted fusion of reporting vantages is 28.6%. The current OONI aggregate reports a 58.3% anomaly index across 272,935 completed China measurements. The current controlled panel reports 100% blocked responses across 5 tested domains. The fused index, volunteer-probe aggregate, and fixed inside-China panel use different samples and protocols, so none can be substituted for a national share of traffic or users.Receipts chinaevidence-144772da33bec275904d, chinaevidence-4e5f972900017ee51297, chinaevidence-ec56f38af9bcc0320ec8
App availability needs both a fixed panel and a broad corpus
The current panel finds 60% of 10 tracked apps unavailable in the China storefront. The current AppleCensorship corpus reports 28.13% unavailable among 110,432 tested apps for mainland China. The fixed panel supports controlled same-round comparison, while the broad corpus improves catalogue coverage; neither percentage identifies why an individual app is absent.Receipts chinaevidence-a3c1c782d89f5c385775, chinaevidence-d003e34c274e42b955d1
What today's reading can support
At the edition clock, 7 of 10 selected instruments publish current claims and 3 publish availability warnings instead. The defensible conclusion is a layered description of current observations, not a single estimate of censorship prevalence or intent.Receipts chinaevidence-144772da33bec275904d, chinaevidence-4bef7722a9f13ac6e0b1, chinaevidence-4e5f972900017ee51297, chinaevidence-886fc4c9f43bd80ad6a1, chinaevidence-a3c1c782d89f5c385775, chinaevidence-aa296dabcfde04b7539f, chinaevidence-d003e34c274e42b955d1, chinaevidence-ec56f38af9bcc0320ec8, chinaevidence-f39c5d3e9e1e0539cf8e, chinaevidence-f58d7a794c4a86527e7e