Sustained censorship in Kazakhstan (2022-01)
Kazakhstan · January 4, 2022 · 9 days
OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 43.6% anomaly rate.
Evidence
44%
Anomaly Rate
3
Measurements
75%
Confidence
What This Means
44% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJanuary 4, 2022
Corroborating Evidence (3)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference3 records
block
"January protests shutdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.45
Jan 13, 2022
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"January protests shutdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.39
Jan 11, 2022
View source →block
"January protests shutdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.46
Jan 4, 2022
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.
- 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. (2022). Sustained censorship in Kazakhstan (2022-01) [KZ-2022-0002]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/KZ-2022-0002