{
  "schema": "qaeda.public-censorship-map.v1",
  "canonical": "https://qaeda.org/censorship",
  "updated": "2026-09-02",
  "publication": "Questioning Accepted Ethics, Dogma & Authority",
  "purpose": "A mechanism-first map for analyzing information control without assuming every moderation, ranking, commercial decision, safety rule, or access requirement is legally or ethically equivalent.",
  "boundary": "QAEDA distinguishes direct state censorship, private editorial choices, indirect coercion, technical failures, and legitimate narrowly tailored safety controls. The label follows evidence about actor, mechanism, effect, and process.",
  "source_family": {
    "name": "Censorship, information rights & resilient access",
    "source_id_range": [
      "QAEDA-SRC-034",
      "QAEDA-SRC-065"
    ],
    "dossiers": 32,
    "public_bodies": false
  },
  "mechanisms": [
    {
      "id": "direct-prohibition",
      "title": "Direct prohibition",
      "question": "Is speech, publication, access, or possession directly forbidden by law or policy?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-022",
        "QAEDA-CLM-024"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-048",
        "QAEDA-SRC-052",
        "QAEDA-SRC-050"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/censorship-drift-democracies",
        "/articles/russia-information-control-stack"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "visibility-ranking",
      "title": "Visibility and ranking",
      "question": "Does the information remain available but become materially harder to discover or distribute?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-021",
        "QAEDA-CLM-029"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-060",
        "QAEDA-SRC-064"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/censorship-beyond-the-ban",
        "/articles/personalized-censorship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "surveillance-chill",
      "title": "Surveillance and self-censorship",
      "question": "Does observation change what people are willing to read, search, say, or discuss?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-023",
        "QAEDA-CLM-012"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-040",
        "QAEDA-SRC-054",
        "QAEDA-SRC-062"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/right-to-read-privately"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "identity-access",
      "title": "Identity and access gates",
      "question": "Must a person disclose identity to read, speak, prove eligibility, or reach an information service?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-031"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-043",
        "QAEDA-SRC-058"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/identity-before-expression"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "financial-infrastructure",
      "title": "Financial and infrastructure chokepoints",
      "question": "Can a bank, processor, host, app store, network operator, or other intermediary make lawful speech practically unsustainable?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-027",
        "QAEDA-CLM-022"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-035",
        "QAEDA-SRC-037",
        "QAEDA-SRC-061"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/financial-chokepoints-speech"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "language-semantic",
      "title": "Language, translation, and vocabulary",
      "question": "Do omission, controlled terms, translation choices, or multilingual divergence alter access or framing?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-028"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-036",
        "QAEDA-SRC-059",
        "QAEDA-SRC-041"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/language-as-information-border"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "memory-archives",
      "title": "Memory and archives",
      "question": "Can one authority control which records survive, remain discoverable, or enter education and public memory?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-026",
        "QAEDA-CLM-035"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-034",
        "QAEDA-SRC-046",
        "QAEDA-SRC-049"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/memory-needs-many-custodians"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "network-sovereignty",
      "title": "Network and sovereign-internet controls",
      "question": "Does control occur at DNS, routing, ISP, transport, platform, or application layers?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-032",
        "QAEDA-CLM-033",
        "QAEDA-CLM-034"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-038",
        "QAEDA-SRC-045",
        "QAEDA-SRC-050",
        "QAEDA-SRC-056"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/resilience-without-new-gatekeeper",
        "/articles/russia-information-control-stack"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-model-mediation",
      "title": "AI model and training mediation",
      "question": "Is the boundary introduced during dataset curation, post-training alignment, retrieval, system policy, or personalized runtime behavior?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-029",
        "QAEDA-CLM-030"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-053",
        "QAEDA-SRC-058",
        "QAEDA-SRC-064",
        "QAEDA-SRC-065"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/personalized-censorship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "wartime-secrecy",
      "title": "Wartime secrecy",
      "question": "Is information restricted to protect a concrete operation, or is security language masking broader political suppression?",
      "claim_ids": [
        "QAEDA-CLM-025",
        "QAEDA-CLM-024"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "QAEDA-SRC-039"
      ],
      "article_routes": [
        "/articles/censorship-drift-democracies"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "decision_tests": "https://qaeda.org/decision-tests.json",
  "evidence_map": "https://qaeda.org/evidence-map.json",
  "claims": "https://qaeda.org/claims.json"
}