Active Incident
Confirmed: censorship: Crackdown on watching pirated soccer broadcasts
Spain · March 7, 2024 · 16 days
CenAlert detected interference. Impact: 157.7. Reported by: Crackdown on watching pirated soccer broadcasts.
Evidence
0%
Anomaly Rate
0
Measurements
75%
Confidence
What This Means
0% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.
How We Detected This
Data Sourcecensoredplanet
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMarch 7, 2024
Corroborating Evidence (2)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research2 records
interference
"Crackdown on watching pirated soccer broadcasts"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 41.96
Mar 23, 2024
View source →interference
"Crackdown on watching pirated soccer broadcasts"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 157.68
Mar 7, 2024
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. (2024). Confirmed: censorship: Crackdown on watching pirated soccer broadcasts [ES-2024-0001]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/ES-2024-0001