Active Incident
Confirmed: kashmir internet shutdown
India · August 5, 2019 · 212 days
OONI detected censorship pattern in India. Kashmir internet shutdown. Anomaly rate: 38.5%
Evidence
38%
Anomaly Rate
78
Measurements
90%
Confidence
What This Means
38% 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 Score90% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 5, 2019
Corroborating Evidence (4)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference4 records
interference
"Web connectivity anomalies detected. 100 measurements with 50.0% anomaly rate."— OONI report
Signal value: 0.50
Jan 25, 2020
View source →block
"Kashmir internet shutdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.38
Dec 20, 2019
View source →interference
"Web connectivity anomalies detected. 78 measurements with 38.5% anomaly rate."— OONI report
Signal value: 0.38
Dec 20, 2019
View source →block
"Kashmir internet shutdown"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.38
Aug 5, 2019
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. (2019). Confirmed: kashmir internet shutdown [IN-2019-0001]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IN-2019-0001
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