Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Italy (2026-08)
Italy · August 2, 2026 · Ongoing
OONI detected 95 days of elevated network interference averaging 91.3% anomaly rate.
Evidence
91%
Anomaly Rate
95
Measurements
85%
Confidence
What This Means
91% of 95 network tests from Italy failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 88+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score85% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 2, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (95)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference95 records
block
"OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in IT (28 confirmed of 37 measurements, 2026-08-02..2026-08-16)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.90
Aug 2, 2026
View source →block
"OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in IT (35 confirmed of 65 measurements, 2026-08-02..2026-08-16)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.90
Aug 2, 2026
View source →block
"OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in IT (33 confirmed of 53 measurements, 2026-08-02..2026-08-16)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.90
Aug 2, 2026
View source →block
"OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in IT (27 confirmed of 45 measurements, 2026-08-02..2026-08-16)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.90
Aug 2, 2026
View source →block
"OONI: confirmed-blocked across 3 distinct ASNs in IT (27 confirmed of 37 measurements, 2026-08-02..2026-08-16)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.90
Aug 2, 2026
View source →+ 90 more OONI records
Blocked Domains (25)
123movies.is123movies.toaltadefinizione.cafealtadefinizione.ccaltadefinizione.ioaltadefinizione.onlaltadefinizione01.clickaltadefinizione01.coolaudio.axomlive.comaudiopoisk.combongdaone.combtso.pwcb01.cocineblog01.gratiscineblog01.namecineblog01.topconexaomp3.comcricfree.tvcrichd.tvdarkstream.meand 5 more
Click any domain to view raw OONI measurements
What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- A confirmed duration — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- Independent corroboration — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: sustained censorship in Italy (2026-08) [IT-2026-0040]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IT-2026-0040
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