Earlier in 2016, Uganda engaged in similar widespread censorship.
To stop citizens from sharing videos of election irregularities, the country’s internet was down for four days. In 2016, internet censorship was used in countries like the African nation of Gabon during highly contested elections and subsequent protests. The project watches over 100 countries and serves as a resource to journalists, lawyers, activists, researchers and people on the ground in countries where censorship is prevalent. Data from OONI has detected censorship in countries including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, South Korea, Greece, China, Russia, India, Indonesia and Sudan. Operating under the Tor Project umbrella, the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a global observation network watching online censorship since 2012. The app also spells out how users might be able to circumvent the blockage. Slowing internet speeds down to a crawl is one way governments censor internet content they deem illegal. The app, called “OONIProbe,” alerts users to the blocking of websites, censorship and surveillance systems and the speed of networks. The Tor Project, responsible for software that enables anonymous Internet use and communication, is launching a new mobile app to detect internet censorship and surveillance around the world.
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