Source index record · Single-source report · not independently verified by Palimpsest
Deliberately forgotten: internet shutdowns with no end
Indefinite internet shutdowns are increasing each year as perpetrators seek to keep entire populations permanently disconnected. The post Deliberately forgotten: internet shutdowns with no end appeared first on Access Now .
Palimpsest did not write or independently verify this publisher report. The record below adds source structure, measurement context when available, revision history and limits.
Record type
Single-source report · not independently verified by PalimpsestThis record indexes one publisher group. Palimpsest has not independently verified or refuted the publisher's claims.
What Palimpsest adds
Attribution, 1 independent source group, topic links, a revision receipt and explicit unknowns. The group count is not a truth probability.
Revision receipt
eventv-5ea117d9792709aa39d0d84fPrevious: eventv-5ea117d9792709aa39d0d84f
Publisher reports · attributed, not adopted
What the registered sources published
- Access Now. Access Now published “Deliberately forgotten: internet shutdowns with no end”.
Palimpsest addition
What Palimpsest adds to this source report
Current collector context · as of
Added value: Palimpsest adds current measurement context from the named collector records below. Those measurements do not verify the publisher's article.
Verification status: Palimpsest's view: current collectors add relevant measured context, but they do not independently verify or refute this article. No archive-news-context row matches this event_id. 166 same-window events share a declared topic. Official-page corroboration coverage is none-reviewed. No interconnection peer met an exact join key.
Source structure: The dossier contains one independent source group. Palimpsest treats it as an attributed report, not independent corroboration.
Why this is the bounded position
- The dossier contains one independent source group. Palimpsest treats it as an attributed report, not independent corroboration.
- All 3 declared collector surfaces are live. Their normalized findings are published below as topical context, not article-specific confirmation.
Cited newsroom brief
Lead · present
- Access Now published the attributed source item at 2026-10-20T09:41:13Z.
- Evidence strength is single-source across 1 independent source group and 1 attributed source record.
- Palimpsest retained feed title, canonical link, publication time, and a bounded excerpt; it did not fetch the article body.
- No interconnection peer met an exact host, URL path, term, or ASN key inside the UTC ±24h window.
Timeline · abstained
- official-first-seen is missing, so first-seen, last-alive, and hash-change points are omitted.
- news-wire-live is missing, so that capture time is omitted.
Official-page movement · none-reviewed
- No live official-first-seen reading was supplied to this analysis.
- Official-page first-seen, last-alive, and hash values are withheld.
- Official-page corroboration coverage is none-reviewed: 0 accepted edges, 0 primary documents, 0 reviewed.
Deletion-ledger context · abstained
- No public-deletion-ledger item matches this URL or a declared topic surface.
Pipe context · present
- Declared pipe surface ioda-outages is live: The current IODA country reading has 1 outage instruments firing. (instruments firing 1). This is aggregate context, not a claim that this article was blocked.
- Declared pipe surface ooni-gfw is live: The current OONI aggregate reports a 54.4% anomaly index across 267,995 completed China measurements. (GFW anomaly index 54.4% over 267995 completed measurements). This is aggregate context, not a claim that this article was blocked.
Archive-derived context · abstained
- No archive-news-context feature row matches this event id, URL, or declared topic surface.
Counterreadings
- A ledger hit can reflect the ledger's own selection rules rather than a deletion of this URL.
- A hash change or disappearance on an official page can reflect a routine update, a fetch failure, or a removal; the trail does not choose among those.
- A current pipe or undertext value can post-date the article and cannot establish that this article was blocked.
What this brief does not know
- Palimpsest does not know why any page, hash, or ledger item changed.
- Palimpsest did not read the article body and does not verify the publisher's claims.
- Person-level attribution and claims about why an actor acted are outside this brief.
Cited brief · citation coverage 1.0 · automatic publication prohibited · human review required.
Collector findings used
Current evidence · circumvention-demand
Tor Metrics estimates 2,724 bridge users connecting from China
Tor Metrics estimates 2,724 bridge users for China in the current reading.
2,724 estimated usersbridge users
Current aggregate collector reading. It is relevant context only; the wire declares no timed, claim-specific verification join.
Method and receipt
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.
- Observed
- 19 Oct 2026 · 23:17 UTC
- Evidence
- circumvention-demand-latest.json
- SHA-256
b676d42582f4a7bb904c658d4e5ca0015dfc3c208995178d8ff32648667b7537
Current evidence · ioda-outages
1 independent IODA instruments are firing for China
The current IODA country reading has 1 outage instruments firing.
1 countinstruments firing
Current aggregate collector reading. It is relevant context only; the wire declares no timed, claim-specific verification join.
Method and receipt
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.
- Observed
- 20 Oct 2026 · 10:03 UTC
- Evidence
- ioda-outages-latest.json
- SHA-256
0d7e396dc3c1f24a109fba2b39fa1a3036ff235c8fec6dcd15e27b69b07ba52b
Current evidence · ooni-gfw
OONI's China anomaly index is 54.4% across 267,995 completed measurements
The current OONI aggregate reports a 54.4% anomaly index across 267,995 completed China measurements.
54.4%GFW anomaly index · across 267,995 completed measurements
Current aggregate collector reading. It is relevant context only; the wire declares no timed, claim-specific verification join.
Method and receipt
side-channel: we ingest OONI's already-aggregated open data; gfw_index is anomalous completed measurements divided by all completed measurements; we never probe a censored resource ourselves (vantage-insensitive)
- Observed
- 20 Oct 2026 · 11:11 UTC
- Evidence
- ooni-gfw-latest.json
- SHA-256
ba2e5869805a6fdc39f09d5601a6e8d115a4fd2628621d7e28b8a960b8f19eb1
Attributed peer context
- greatfire. GreatFire has no cached 90-day verdict for this host in the current peer warehouse. GreatFire Analyzer, CC BY 4.0. Palimpsest is not the origin of these measurements.
- ooni. OONI has no China measurements on this host in the local warehouse or ooni-gfw-latest reading. OONI Probe / OONI data. Palimpsest is not the origin of these measurements.
- weiboscope. Historical Weiboscope volume is not on this node (Fu, Chan, Chau 2013; doi:10.25442/hku.16674565). Weiboscope / HKU Journalism and Media Studies Centre. Historical 2012 volume is not stored on this node.
Named-key interconnection
No interconnection peer met an exact join key. no_key, silent slots remain coverage gaps, not verdicts.
Analysis analysisv-168ca683e70bca6996401fa8 · structured assessment · immutable revision
Evidence braid
Order, provenance and declared surfaces
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documentation · access-now-documentation
Deliberately forgotten: internet shutdowns with no end
· feed sha 999b7fd8ceda
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Declared topic surfaces · not a causal match
scan:circumvention-demand · scan:ioda-outages · scan:ooni-gfw
A timed measurement join has not been asserted by this dossier.
The braid reports source ordering. A declared topic surface is not a timed statistical match and cannot establish cause, coordination, censorship, or economic impact.
Evidence matrix
Inspect every receipt
Scroll horizontally to inspect every column.
| Role | Source / group | Feed record | Published / hash |
|---|---|---|---|
| documentation | Access Nowaccess-now-documentation | Deliberately forgotten: internet shutdowns with no endIndefinite internet shutdowns are increasing each year as perpetrators seek to keep entire populations permanently disconnected. The post Deliberately forgotten: internet shutdowns with no end appeared first on Access Now . | feed sha 999b7fd8ceda |
Measurement surfaces
Where Palimpsest can test the topic
Epistemic boundary
What this dossier cannot establish
- Palimpsest retained only feed title, canonical link, time, and a bounded plain-text excerpt; it did not fetch the article body.
- The evidence-strength label describes source structure, not truth, intent, impact, or causation.
- Declared instrument links are topical pointers until a separate scan or economic observation is joined by time and method.
- Title-similarity clustering can miss differently worded or cross-language accounts and can join closely worded updates.
- This dossier currently contains one independent evidence group and remains explicitly attributed.