Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in United Kingdom (2026-06)
United Kingdom · June 8, 2026 · Ongoing
OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 90.0% anomaly rate.
Evidence
90%
Anomaly Rate
3
Measurements
77%
Confidence
What This Means
90% of 3 network tests from United Kingdom failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 87+ 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 Score77% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJune 8, 2026
Blocked Domains (3)
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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 United Kingdom (2026-06) [GB-2026-0042]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/GB-2026-0042
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