I believe they are saying that it happened in 2018, not today.
It's possible that it was a mistake, and corrected, but it should still concern you that it was done to begin with.
Telecoms should not be the arbiters of what content you view.
It's possible that it was a mistake, and corrected, but it should still concern you that it was done to begin with.
Telecoms should not be the arbiters of what content you view.
Either the article writer is confusing Norway with another country or this is just "Journalistic flair" i.e. a lie.
Why do you say this journalist is lying, but lack of evidence from other journalists must mean this one is wrong?
Pirate Bay is a big site, and journalists and the population would notice. But they might not know to look for other sites being censored. Just food for thought. I don't know whether to believe it either, but I'm willing to leave it to others to fact check more rigorously.
A perfectly reasonable explanation that obeys all the facts could be that a single telecom blocked access for a short time by mistake, was alerted, and silently fixed it before journalists noticed. I doubt many people are visiting hrw.org on a daily basis, and an outage like that could be mistaken for temporary website issues. A journalist would probably not assume it was a country-wide block and so wouldn't think to write an article about it.
"Our anomaly detection alerted us to high scores in DNS blocking starting from December 2019 until March 2020"