internet censorship

Back in November 2019, we reported that Reliance Jio is able to block HTTPS internet traffic by means of a deep packet inspection (DPI) technique. In response, some readers messaged us saying that they ran our test and were able to reproduce similar behaviour on Airtel mobile networks. According to…

Update (11th April 2020): This paper has been accepted at ACM Web Science 2020. A preprint can be accessed on arXiv. Nation states around the world engage in web censorship using a variety of legal and technical methods. India is no different in this regard: the Government of India can…