How-India-Censors-The-Web-Data

A list of URLs potentially blocked by Indian Internet Service Providers.

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A list of URLs potentially blocked by Indian Internet Service Providers.

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Observed mentions: 2020-09-28 06:11:11 UTC to 2020-09-30 04:14:21 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Sep 28, 06:00	2020-09-28 06:00:00 UTC	2020-09-28 09:00:00 UTC	1	1
Sep 28, 09:00	2020-09-28 09:00:00 UTC	2020-09-28 12:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 28, 12:00	2020-09-28 12:00:00 UTC	2020-09-28 15:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 28, 15:00	2020-09-28 15:00:00 UTC	2020-09-28 18:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 28, 18:00	2020-09-28 18:00:00 UTC	2020-09-28 21:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 28, 21:00	2020-09-28 21:00:00 UTC	2020-09-29 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 29, 00:00	2020-09-29 00:00:00 UTC	2020-09-29 03:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 29, 03:00	2020-09-29 03:00:00 UTC	2020-09-29 06:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 29, 06:00	2020-09-29 06:00:00 UTC	2020-09-29 09:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 29, 09:00	2020-09-29 09:00:00 UTC	2020-09-29 12:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 29, 12:00	2020-09-29 12:00:00 UTC	2020-09-29 15:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 29, 15:00	2020-09-29 15:00:00 UTC	2020-09-29 18:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 29, 18:00	2020-09-29 18:00:00 UTC	2020-09-29 21:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 29, 21:00	2020-09-29 21:00:00 UTC	2020-09-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 30, 00:00	2020-09-30 00:00:00 UTC	2020-09-30 03:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 30, 03:00	2020-09-30 03:00:00 UTC	2020-09-30 06:00:00 UTC	1	1

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justDankin·Sep 30, 2020

We released a subset of the data along with the paper (~5K hostnames), can be accessed at https://github.com/kush789/How-India-Censors-The-Web-Data The app uses a more updated list (roughly 10K hostnames)

In How India Censors the Web

indiablock·Sep 28, 2020

I'm not in India, but as far as I know, at least alexa.com and behance.net were blocked for long periods of time. I think NYTimes got unblocked fairly quickly. Somewhat recent report of Alexa.com being blocked (July 2020): https://twitter.com/anandakrsn/status/1284763939427905536?s=... Report of Behance being blocked on Aug, 2020: https://twitter.com/prabhjotjolly/status/1295623006358650880... As the article explains, the blocking is very inconsistent. The article also links to a github repo with some of the blocked hostnames they recently detected: https://github.com/kush789/How-India-Censors-The-Web-Data/bl... You can see that the list includes alexa.com and behance. It also includes lots of others like craigslist.co.in, ABC.net.au, bleacherreport.com. From personal experience, I know that these are just a tiny subset of legitimate webs

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ites that have been blocked (and perhaps later unblocked) for seemingly no reason and have no clear recourse.

In Investigating TLS Blocking in India