CensorAlert aggregates censorship signals from heterogeneous open sources — including OONI, Cloudflare Radar, NetBlocks, GitHub Issues of circumvention tools (Hysteria, Xray), Net4People BBS, NTC Party forum, Mastodon, X, Telegram channels, and arXiv — normalizing each item into a common schema preserving timestamp, source, raw data, and provenance with a link to the original content.
From 2026-zohaib-extended — Extended Abstract: CensorAlert -- Leveraging LLM Agents for Automated Censorship Report Aggregation and Analysis
· §2 (Data Sources)
· 2026
· Free and Open Communications on the Internet
Implications
Circumvention tool maintainers should treat their public GitHub issues and changelogs as a de facto censorship telemetry feed; CensorAlert (and similar platforms) will ingest these automatically.
Build public-facing incident documentation into tool infrastructure so aggregation platforms can automatically ingest structured blocking reports.