Use Case: Digital Rights Defender - Request legal or official explanation challenging censorship

Revision History

Primary Actor:

Digital Rights Defender

Stakeholders and Interests

The interests of non-users related to these user story

Access to the internet, including tools to circumvent website blocks, connection blackouts, and widespread censorship
Awareness of access, privacy, or security threats and protective measures, including how-to guides, instructional apps, data collection platforms, and other efforts that increase the efficacy of internet freedom tools;

Preconditions

Conditions that need to happen before user starts this task/story

OONI test urls coverage covering as many key categories as possible for country/region of interest
Extensive OONI data from test-lists urls on multiple networks
Can access dashboard services

Success Guarantee (Post condition)

What happens if user story is successfully completed

Digital Rights Defender is able to cite historical list of past and current sites being blocked along with supporting technical evidence for articles, formal complaint or legal challenge.

Main success scenario (Basic Flow)

Access main website and access country dashboard
Access country page
Select Reports - Censored Sites by Date
Picks a date (defaults to latest) and gets table sortable by headers
Able to print or share this list in human readable format

Extensions (Alternate Flows)

Alternate step for Step 2.

Special Requirements

Any other special requirements such as equipment, accessibility etc.

Technology and Data Variations List:

Tech devices, environment etc. data collected etc.

Current table listing view

Frequency of Occurrence:

How often does this story occur?

2-3 times a year in Malaysia, usually before parliament is in session

Open Issues

Any open/unresolved issues

Less specific but does require a historical view/report, that might be considered useful for category tabs also
Example of article https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/insights/bread-kaya-dear-attorney-general-tommy-thomas-we-need-speak-about-our-malaysia-cyberlaw-and
Example of lists of censored sites https://data.sinarproject.org/dataset/list-of-censored-websites

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