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Piece-level censorship-practice dossiers

Name: Piece-level censorship-practice dossiers
Creator: Palimpsest
License: https://github.com/beepboop2025/palimpsest/blob/main/LICENSE

Dataset censorship-practice-dossiers · Assessed 2026-10-08T12:47:59Z

Deterministic dossier for every qualifying item in retained public inputs: evidence state, observed or reported mechanism, explicit actor attribution, timeline, exact-identity measurement joins, input hashes, counter-readings, unknowns and collector gaps. Reporting about censorship is not represented as itself censored; ordinary edits and archive gaps are excluded and counted.

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Current JSON

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Evidence state: fresh
Reading timestamp: 2026-10-08T12:02:20Z
Collection target: PT6H
Sources: Public deletion-ledger feeds · Bounded social observations · Weibo hot-search archive · DDTI · UNDERTEXT · Internet Archive CDX
Geography: CN · GLOBAL
History: No public history distribution
counts.captured items reviewed: 340
counts.dossiers: 7
counts.observed disappearances: 0
counts.peer reported: 6
counts.pattern signals: 0
counts.review required: 1
counts.excluded items: 59

Reuse terms: Upstream rights retained; bounded excerpts and Palimpsest derived metadata MIT. Source rights remain attached to observations.

How to use this evidence

The reading timestamp records the instrument's evidence clock. The economic reference period or event date is defined inside the source record. A recent collection does not turn an old observation into a current one. Counts describe this dataset's coverage, not all activity in China.

Cite this dataset

Palimpsest. Piece-level censorship-practice dossiers. Reading: 2026-10-08T12:02:20Z. https://www.palimpsest.info/datasets/censorship-practice-dossiers/

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