We also followed user publications on social networks that reported their inability to access certain websites.

We communicated with users – directly or via social networks – who are using different networks to ensure that they can access blocked websites.AFTE used the Tor browser to make sure that these blocked websites work outside Egypt. AFTE has tested access to blocked websites across a variety of Internet service providers in Egypt.AFTE compares the results obtained through the tool with the results of other tests published by users from Egypt. It also allows users to publish test results. OONI Probe enables testing the blocking of websites, as well as another spectrum of network tests. AFTE used the Tor Project (OONI Probe), a free software and observatory that acts as a network to detect surveillance, control and interference with Internet traffic.In this document, AFTE publishes a periodic update of blocked websites in Egypt, including surrounding circumstances and classification of blocked sites. Thousands of Websites are collaterally blocked in Egypt.By judicial decree… a reading in the YouTube block verdict”.Closing windows… internet surveillance in Egypt.By decree sometimes… on website blocks in Egypt.Decision by an unknown authority … on the block of websites in Egypt.Later authorities expanded the block to include a large number of websites that provide various content and services reaching up to at least 549 sites AFTE produced several reports on the situation of internet surveillance in Egypt, that can be accessed on the following links: On the 24 th of May 2017 Egyptian authorities blocked 21 websites.

Tor websites list 2017