What the record says
Availability. No current finding is published for Silence index because the source status is stale.
This report is scoped to silence-index. It does not merge unlike instruments or infer a cause from co-movement.
How it was measured
pre-emptive silence: topics loud abroad and gone at home, the censorship that leaves no deletion to count. Guard rails are the processor's, not this runner's: no China nexus -> out_of_scope; missing global or domestic input -> abstain; and with no coupling baseline wired (v1), a topic without gazetteer corroboration abstains rather than scores — a topic China never covered being quiet at home is disinterest, not suppression. An abstention is published as an abstention, never as a zero. DDTI terms carry china_nexus by provenance: they are drawn from the censor's own deletion stream, so this runner sets the nexus flag at source and the processor's per-term gazetteer gate is deliberately bypassed for them (it still guards any non-DDTI deployment). A blind round (nothing scored) records null blackout counts in both the latest reading and the history, never zeros
What this cannot establish
- Current finding withheld: freshness deadline has passed
- Domestic absence can reflect disinterest or incomplete proxy coverage; topics without required corroboration abstain.
Palimpsest addition
Instrument brief
availability-brief · Evidence stale
Palimpsest withholds a current finding for silence-index: the source status is stale. This is an availability brief, not a measurement.
Key number
- withheld headline metric · withheld because the source is not live
Current number and denominator
- No current number is published for silence-index because the newsroom status is stale. The retained metric is withheld.
- No current finding is published for Silence index because the source status is stale.
Same-edition board context
- Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: event-flags, ddti, gdelt, undertext, ooni-gfw, in-path-interference, censored-planet, inside-view, ioda-outages, vantage-fusion, erasure-observatory, wayback, app-storefront, apple-censorship, cny-fix-gap, data-darkness.
- No editorial_priority or MAD score is treated as a finding on this reading.
What this reading does not show
- Current finding withheld: freshness deadline has passed
- The brief does not assign motive, identify a person, merge unlike denominators, or treat a missing reading as a zero.
- pre-emptive silence: topics loud abroad and gone at home, the censorship that leaves no deletion to count. Guard rails are the processor's, not this runner's: no China nexus -> out_of_scope; missing global or domestic input -> abstain; and with no coupling baseline wired (v1), a topic without gazetteer corroboration abstains rather than scores - a topic China never covered being quiet at home is disinterest, not suppression. An abstention is published as an abstention, never as a zero. DDTI terms carry china_nexus by provenance: they are drawn from the censor's own deletion stream, so this runner sets the nexus flag at source and the processor's per-term gazetteer gate is deliberately bypassed for them (it still guards any non-DDTI deployment). A blind round (nothing scored) records null blackout counts in both the latest reading and the history, never zeros
Elevated peers this edition
event-flags (command), ddti (attention), gdelt (attention), undertext (attention), ooni-gfw (network), in-path-interference (network), censored-planet (network), inside-view (network), ioda-outages (network), vantage-fusion (network), erasure-observatory (erasure), wayback (erasure), app-storefront (erasure), apple-censorship (erasure), cny-fix-gap (economy), data-darkness (economy)
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
- Current finding withheld: freshness deadline has passed
- The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.
Analysis instrumentv-646295846af095a897c4580a · structured assessment · reading companion
Read the evidence
The exact source reading is silence-index-latest.json. The structured version of this dispatch is published beside the article.