The Censorship Atlas
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This responsive data table surfaces the complete bibliographical dataset compiled during the research for the Censorship Atlas. Use the dynamic filters to query papers that specifically deal with distinct dimensions of intervention, ranging from Legal Regulation to Infrastructural Denial.
| Year ↓ | Country | Author | Title & Context | Dimensions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Thailand | Sirikupt et al. | Drowning Out Dissent: The Thai Military’s Quest to
Fabricate Popular Support on Twitter The International Journal of Press/Politics | ●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2025 | Nigeria | Access Now | #KeepItOn: Authorities in Nigeria Must Reconnect People
in Zamfara North Now | ●Info Flood | URL |
| 2025 | North Korea | Amnesty International | North Korea, the Surveillance State | ◐Legal/Reg●Infra Denial | URL |
| 2025 | Canada | Hannaford et al. | Death by a Thousand Clicks: The Rise of Internet
Censorship and Control in Canada | ●Legal/Reg | URL |
| 2025 | Mexico | Josephy-Hernández et al. | A Brief History of Anime Censorship in the United States,
México and Costa Rica: Reception and Adverse Reactions | ◐Tech Filter | - |
| 2025 | India | Mehta, Smith N et al. | The Road to Censorship: The Case of Digital Audiovisual
Industries in India International Journal of Cultural Policy | ●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2025 | Eritrea | Shiker, Zeraslasie Redie et al. | (Mis)Education in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of
Eritrea Education Sciences | ◐Legal/Reg●Infra Denial | DOI |
| 2025 | Indonesia | Sihidi et al. | The Rise of Symptoms of Digital Authoritarianism: Lesson
from Indonesia Internasional Journal of Politics and Public Policy | ●Legal/Reg●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2025 | Canada | Tenenboim et al. | Under-the-Radar Engagement: How and Why News Users Limit
Their Public Expression Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2025 | Syria | The New Arab Staff | New Syria Government Unblocks Websites Banned by Assad
Regime | ◐Infra Denial | URL |
| 2024 | Italy | Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) | Anti-Piracy Shield Halts Google Drive | ●Tech Filter | URL |
| 2024 | India | Gosain, Devashish et al. | Out in the Open: On the Implementation of Mobile App
Filtering in India | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2024 | Syria | Helwani et al. | Cyberactivism in Syria: Emergence, Transformation,
Potentials, and Limitations Güvenlik Stratejileri Dergisi | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2024 | Iran | Lange, Felix et al. | Censors Ignore Unencrypted HTTP/2 Traffic | ●Tech Filter | URL |
| 2024 | China | Lange, Felix et al. | Censors Ignore Unencrypted HTTP/2 Traffic | ●Tech Filter | URL |
| 2024 | Taiwan | Moats, David et al. | Using Quali-Quantitative Methods to Interrogate the Role
of Algorithms in Digital Democracy Platforms Information, Communication & Society | ●Legal/Reg◐Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2024 | Indonesia | Rama et al. | Press Freedom in The Digital Era in Indonesia: A Human
Rights Perspective JIHAD : Jurnal Ilmu Hukum dan Administrasi | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2024 | Turkmenistan | progres | The Regulation of the Internet in Turkmenistan Progres.Online | ●Legal/Reg | URL |
| 2024 | Ukraine | Santos Okholm, Christiern et al. | Blocking the Information War? Testing the Effectiveness
of the EU’s Censorship of Russian State Propaganda among the Fringe Communities of Western Europe Internet Policy Review | ◐Infra Denial | DOI |
| 2024 | Turkmenistan | Thumfart et al. | Digital Rights and the State of Exception. Internet
Shutdowns from the Perspective of Just Securitization Theory Journal of Global Security Studies | ●Infra Denial | DOI |
| 2024 | Turkmenistan | Human Rights Watch | Turkmenistan Events 2023 | ●Legal/Reg | URL |
| 2023 | Ukraine | Burdiak et al. | Online Battlefield: The Legal Landscape of Ukraine’s
Internet Censorship Before and After the 2022 Russian Invasion Modern Historical and Political Issues | ●Legal/Reg●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2023 | Canada | Hu, Wei et al. | Work in Progress: A Glance at Social Media
Self-Censorship in North America | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2023 | Vietnam | Luong et al. | A Study of Vietnam's Control over Online Anti-state
Content | ●Legal/Reg●Tech Filter | - |
| 2023 | Turkmenistan | Nourin, Sadia et al. | Measuring and Evading Turkmenistan’s Internet Censorship:
A Case Study in Large-Scale Measurements of a Low-Penetration Country | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2023 | Ukraine | Ramesh, Reethika et al. | Network Responses to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in
2022: A Cautionary Tale for Internet Freedom | ◐Info Flood◐Infra Denial | - |
| 2023 | Taiwan | Rauchfleisch, Adrian et al. | Taiwan’s Public Discourse About Disinformation: The Role
of Journalism, Academia, and Politics Journalism Practice | ◐Info Flood | DOI |
| 2023 | Indonesia | Satriawan, Iwan et al. | Internet Shutdown in Indonesia: An Appropriate Response
or A Threat to Human Rights? Sriwijaya Law Review | ●Tech Filter◐Infra Denial | DOI |
| 2023 | China | Wu, Mingshi et al. | How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully
Encrypted Traffic | ●Tech Filter | - |
| 2022 | Canada | Coe et al. | The Draft Online Safety Bill and the Regulation of Hate
Speech: Have We Opened Pandora’s Box? Journal of Media Law | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2022 | Ukraine | Golovchenko et al. | Fighting Propaganda with Censorship: A Study of the
Ukrainian Ban on Russian Social Media The Journal of Politics | N/A | DOI |
| 2022 | Iran | Hashemzadegan, Alireza et al. | Internet Censorship in Iran: An Inside Look Journal of Cyberspace Studies | ●Tech Filter●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2022 | Indonesia | Manullang et al. | The Legality of Devious Cyber Practices: Readiness of
Indonesia's Cyber Laws Society | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2022 | Italy | Park, Jeman et al. | A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of the Open DNS
Resolvers on the Internet IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2022 | Mexico | Piña-García, C. A. et al. | Coordinated Campaigns on Twitter during the Coronavirus
Health Crisis in Mexico Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society | ◐Tech Filter●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2021 | Mexico | Access Now | Mexico: New Guidelines Jeopardize Net Neutrality and
Empower Surveillance | ◐Legal/Reg | URL |
| 2021 | Nigeria | Al Jazeera | Twitter Restricted in Nigeria after Government Decree
| ◐Infra Denial | URL |
| 2021 | China | Bock, Kevin et al. | Your Censor Is My Censor: Weaponizing Censorship
Infrastructure for Availability Attacks | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2021 | Canada | Jin, Lin et al. | Understanding the Practices of Global Censorship through
Accurate, End-to-End Measurements Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing
Systems | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2021 | India | Momen, Md. Nurul et al. | Mediated Democracy and Internet Shutdown in India Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society | ◐Infra Denial | DOI |
| 2021 | Turkmenistan | Net4People | Bidirectional DNS, HTTPS, HTTP Injection in Turkmenistan
| ●Tech Filter | URL |
| 2021 | Vietnam | Nguyen-Pochan et al. | State Management of Social Media in Vietnam The Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies | ●Legal/Reg●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2021 | Taiwan | Nguyen, Nhut-Lam et al. | Understanding Malicious Accounts in Online Political
Discussions: A Multilayer Network Approach Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) | ◐Info Flood | DOI |
| 2021 | Taiwan | Shen et al. | How China Initiates Information Operations Against Taiwan
Taiwan Strategists | ●Legal/Reg | - |
| 2021 | Turkmenistan | ValdikSS | Turkmenistan AGTS Reachability Test 18 Dec 2021 | N/A | - |
| 2020 | Iran | Basso et al. | DNS over TLS Blocked in Iran | ●Tech Filter | URL |
| 2020 | Iran | Bock, Kevin et al. | Detecting and Evading Censorship-in-Depth: A Case Study
of Iran’s Protocol Whitelister | ●Tech Filter | - |
| 2020 | Canada | Crowne et al. | All That Glitters: Federal Court of Canada Issues
Canada's First Website Blocking Order against GoldTV Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2020 | Spain | Medina et al. | Governmental Censorship of the Internet: Spanish vs.
Catalans Case Study Library Trends | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2020 | India | Singh, Kushagra et al. | How India Censors the Web | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2020 | France | Ververis, Vasilis et al. | Cross-Country Comparison of Internet Censorship: A
Literature Review Policy & Internet | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2020 | Turkey | Ververis, Vasilis et al. | Cross-Country Comparison of Internet Censorship: A
Literature Review Policy & Internet | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2020 | Iran | Ververis, Vasilis et al. | Cross-Country Comparison of Internet Censorship: A
Literature Review Policy & Internet | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2019 | India | Campbell-Smith, Ualan et al. | Global Cyber Troops Country Profile: India Project on Computational Propaganda | ●Info Flood | - |
| 2019 | Mexico | Iszaevich et al. | Distributed Detection of Tor Directory Authorities
Censorship in Mexico | ◐Tech Filter | - |
| 2019 | Turkmenistan | Qurim | Turkmenistan and Their "Golden DPI" | ●Legal/Reg | URL |
| 2019 | Taiwan | Skrzypczak et al. | The Effect of the ‘China Factor’ on Taiwan’s Media System
Security as an Example of the ‘Privatization and Outsourcing’ of Censorship and Propaganda in the
Digital Age Przegląd Strategiczny | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2018 | China | Creemers et al. | China's Social Credit System: An Evolving Practice
of Control Available at SSRN 3175792 | ●Legal/Reg | - |
| 2018 | Eritrea | Ghebregiorgis, Fitsum et al. | Determinants of Internet Use and Internet Penetration in
Eritrea: Evidences from the City of Asmara Journal of Economics and Management Sciences | ●Infra Denial | DOI |
| 2018 | Turkey | Saka et al. | Social Media in Turkey as a Space for Political Battles:
AKTrolls and Other Politically Motivated Trolling Middle East Critique | ●Tech Filter●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2018 | Germany | Theil et al. | The German NetzDG: A Risk Worth Taking? Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional | ●Legal/Reg◐Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2017 | Italy | Aceto, Giuseppe et al. | Internet Censorship in Italy: An Analysis of 3G/4G
Networks | ●Tech Filter | - |
| 2017 | Syria | Bertram et al. | ‘Close Enough’ – The Link between the Syrian Electronic
Army and the Bashar al-Assad Regime, and Implications for the Future Development of Nation-State Cyber
Counter-Insurgency Strategies Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International
Relations | ●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2017 | Iran | Fifield et al. | Threat Modeling and Circumvention of Internet Censorship
| ●Infra Denial | - |
| 2017 | Thailand | Gebhart, Genevieve et al. | Internet Censorship in Thailand: User Practices and
Potential Threats | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2017 | India | Gosain, Devashish et al. | Mending Wall: On the Implementation of Censorship in
India | ●Tech Filter◐Infra Denial | DOI |
| 2017 | Vietnam | Norton et al. | Music and Censorship in Vietnam since 1954 | ●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2017 | Eritrea | Piskunova et al. | Small, Stable, Authoritarian? Assessing Eritrea’s
Consistency in Abusing Media Freedoms | ◐Info Flood●Infra Denial | DOI |
| 2017 | Turkey | Tanash, Rima et al. | The Decline of Social Media Censorship and the Rise of
Self-Censorship after the 2016 Failed Turkish Coup | N/A | - |
| 2016 | Thailand | Bou-Harb, Elias et al. | A Novel Cyber Security Capability: Inferring
Internet-scale Infections by Correlating Malware and Probing Activities Computer Networks | ●Tech Filter | - |
| 2016 | Nigeria | Gumede et al. | Rise in Censorship of the Internet and Social Media in
Africa Journal of African Media Studies | ●Legal/Reg | - |
| 2016 | Thailand | Laungaramsri et al. | Mass Surveillance and the Militarization of Cyberspace in
Post-Coup Thailand Advances in Southeast Asian Studies | ●Tech Filter | - |
| 2015 | Turkey | Akgül, Mustafa et al. | Internet Censorship in Turkey Internet Policy Review | ●Legal/Reg | - |
| 2015 | China | Han et al. | Defending the Authoritarian Regime Online: China's
“Voluntary Fifty-cent Army” The China Quarterly | ●Info Flood | DOI |
| 2015 | Turkey | Tanash, Rima S. et al. | Known Unknowns: An Analysis of Twitter Censorship in
Turkey | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2014 | Thailand | Abdulmana, Sahidan et al. | Coordinate Negative Content Filtering and Threat
Detection in Thailand on the Internet Infrastructure | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2014 | Vietnam | Cain et al. | Kill One to Warn One Hundred: The Politics of Press
Censorship in Vietnam The International Journal of Press/Politics | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2014 | Syria | Chaabane, Abdelberi et al. | Censorship in the Wild: Analyzing Internet Filtering in
Syria | ●Tech Filter | DOI |
| 2013 | Iran | Aryan, Simurgh et al. | Internet Censorship in Iran: A First Look | ●Legal/Reg●Tech Filter | - |
| 2013 | Eritrea | C S. H. N. Murthy | State-Owned Media and Democratization in Eritrea: An
Analytical Study Global Media Journal African Edition | ◐Info Flood●Infra Denial | DOI |
| 2013 | Canada | Deibert et al. | Canada and the Challenges of Cyberspace Governance and
Security The School of Public Policy Publications | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2012 | France | Breindl, Yana et al. | Internet Filtering Trends in Western Liberal Democracies:
French and German Regulatory Debates FOCI | ◐Tech Filter | - |
| 2012 | Syria | Eissa, Tameem et al. | Internet Anonymity in Syria, Challenges and Solution
| ●Tech Filter | - |
| 2012 | France | Meyer et al. | Graduated Response in France: The Clash of Copyright and
the Internet Journal of Information Policy | ●Legal/Reg | DOI |
| 2009 | Mexico | Erixon, Fredrik et al. | Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and
International Trade Law | ◐Tech Filter | - |
| 2008 | India | Indian Gov | Section 69a Of It Act 2 | Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology | ●Legal/Reg | URL |
| 2006 | Mexico | Wu et al. | The World Trade Law of Censorship and Internet Filtering
Chi. J. Int'l L. | ◐Tech Filter | - |