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Network and Circumvention · Current evidence

1 independent IODA instruments are firing for China

BGP, active-probing and darknet instruments provide a country-scale outage check distinct from content blocking.

1 countinstruments firing

What the record says

Observation. The current IODA country reading has 1 outage instruments firing.

This report is scoped to ioda-outages. It does not merge unlike instruments or infer a cause from co-movement.

How it was measured

Shutdown-scale connectivity events, detected from outside China by three independent global instruments. Each event names the instrument that saw it; a single-instrument event is a candidate, multi-instrument corroboration is the strong read. The conformal signal is the per-day count of event STARTS.

What this cannot establish

  • No firing instrument means no detected country-scale outage in this window, not proof that all local networks were reachable.

Instrument brief

live-reading · Current evidence

Palimpsest's view: ioda-outages is live. The current number is 1 over declared denominator not reported. This is the instrument reading, not a national censorship rate.

Key number

  • 1 instruments firing · declared denominator not reported

Current number and denominator

  • The current instruments firing is 1 over declared denominator not reported.
  • The current IODA country reading has 1 outage instruments firing.

Same-edition board context

  • Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: ddti, weibo-hotsearch, undertext, ooni-gfw, in-path-interference, censored-planet, 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

  • No firing instrument means no detected country-scale outage in this window, not proof that all local networks were reachable.
  • The brief does not assign motive, identify a person, merge unlike denominators, or treat a missing reading as a zero.
  • Shutdown-scale connectivity events, detected from outside China by three independent global instruments. Each event names the instrument that saw it; a single-instrument event is a candidate, multi-instrument corroboration is the strong read. The conformal signal is the per-day count of event STARTS.

Elevated peers this edition

ddti (attention), weibo-hotsearch (attention), undertext (attention), ooni-gfw (network), in-path-interference (network), censored-planet (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

  • No firing instrument means no detected country-scale outage in this window, not proof that all local networks were reachable.
  • The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.

Analysis instrumentv-32cce371957f16512d8669ea · structured assessment · reading companion

Read the evidence

The exact source reading is ioda-outages-latest.json. The structured version of this dispatch is published beside the article.