Active Incident
Confirmed: censorship detected in Japan
Japan · August 14, 2026 · Ongoing
Evidence
54%
Anomaly Rate
1
Measurements
71%
Confidence
What This Means
54% of 1 network tests from Japan failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 51+ 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 Score71% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 14, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (1)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference1 record
middlebox-detection
"OONI http_invalid_request_line: 15/28 measurements anomalous (53.6%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.54
Aug 14, 2026
View source →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: censorship detected in Japan [JP-2026-0015]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/JP-2026-0015
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