What the record says
Finding. Tor Metrics estimates 2,457 bridge users for China in the current reading.
This report is scoped to circumvention-demand. It does not merge unlike instruments or infer a cause from co-movement.
How it was measured
Bridge users = demand for unlisted entry points (the demand-to-circumvent series). Relay users = direct reachability, structurally near-floor behind the GFW. A transport halving while another surges (transport_shifts) is the public fingerprint of a new GFW classifier deployment. Estimates are Tor's, from sampled directory requests; transport rows keep Tor's low/high bounds. No probe traffic is generated by this collector.
What this cannot establish
- Bridge-user values are privacy-preserving estimates and should not be read as exact people or devices.
Palimpsest addition
Instrument brief
live-reading · Current evidence
Palimpsest's view: circumvention-demand is live. The current number is 2,457 over declared denominator not reported. This is the instrument reading, not a national censorship rate.
Key number
- 2,457 bridge users · declared denominator not reported
Current number and denominator
- The current bridge users is 2,457 over declared denominator not reported.
- Tor Metrics estimates 2,457 bridge users for China in the current reading.
Same-edition board context
- Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: ddti, weibo-hotsearch, net4people, undertext, ooni-gfw, in-path-interference, censored-planet, ioda-outages, vantage-fusion, erasure-observatory, wayback, app-storefront, apple-censorship, generative-firewall.
- No editorial_priority or MAD score is treated as a finding on this reading.
What this reading does not show
- Bridge-user values are privacy-preserving estimates and should not be read as exact people or devices.
- The brief does not assign motive, identify a person, merge unlike denominators, or treat a missing reading as a zero.
- Bridge users = demand for unlisted entry points (the demand-to-circumvent series). Relay users = direct reachability, structurally near-floor behind the GFW. A transport halving while another surges (transport_shifts) is the public fingerprint of a new GFW classifier deployment. Estimates are Tor's, from sampled directory requests; transport rows keep Tor's low/high bounds. No probe traffic is generated by this collector.
Elevated peers this edition
ddti (attention), weibo-hotsearch (attention), net4people (attention), undertext (attention), ooni-gfw (network), in-path-interference (network), censored-planet (network), ioda-outages (network), vantage-fusion (network), erasure-observatory (erasure), wayback (erasure), app-storefront (erasure), apple-censorship (erasure), generative-firewall (models)
Counterreadings
- A current or withheld instrument value is not independent corroboration of any publisher article, and it is not a cause.
- Co-movement with another live signal on this edition is layer context, not a shared rate or a coordinated action.
Limitations
- Bridge-user values are privacy-preserving estimates and should not be read as exact people or devices.
- The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.
Analysis instrumentv-cc58f4eb8f2d647b7589b62f · structured assessment · reading companion
Read the evidence
The exact source reading is circumvention-demand-latest.json. The structured version of this dispatch is published beside the article.