iMAP Myanmar 2023 Internet Censorship Report | Page 25
Category
Category description
Number
of
OONI
Probe blocked
and
Measurements
likely blocked
measurements
Percentage of
blocked
and
likely blocked
measurements
XED
Sex Education
13,094
1,324
10.1%
Table 4: Summary of OONI web connectivity measurements for Myanmar from 1 July 2022
to 30 June 2023 by category
Note: Blocked and likely blocked measurements include “Confirmed Blocked”, “Anomaly”,
and “Failures” on OONI measurements.
Based on the web connectivity test results, the most used methods of censorship by ISPs
are DNS blocking (dns.confirmed) and HTTP blocking (http.body.confirmed). Out of 177
websites, 123 websites (69%) are blocked with the use of DNS blocking and the 54 (31%)
are blocked with HTTP blocking. The following chart illustrates the percentage of websites
blocked by the two blocking methods.
Figure 4: Percentage of websites blocked by different blocking methods
While analysing blocked websites for the 2022 iMAP report, one limitation was the
unspecified website categories that were not under the 30 categories of the CitizenLab test
lists. So out of 286 blocked websites in 2022, only 112 blocked websites of 11 categories
were reported in detail. However, all 286 blocked websites were annexed in the 2022 report.
In the 2023 report, all of the blocked websites have been categorised according to the
CitizenLab categories, some of them by the researchers manually.
As mentioned above, the measurement results in this study period show that there are 177
confirmed blocked websites under 23 categories (see Annex I) with 12 new categories as
below. The one website category that is common to both 2022 and 2023 reports is Public
Health.
1. Alcohol & Drugs
2. Control content
3. Culture
4. E-commerce
5. Economics
6. Environment