Table 1.

Empirical tests

Question	Test
1) Do individuals circumvent censorship more during crisis?	VPN ranking; increased use of blocked services; new Twitter users.
2) Do individuals access crisis information?	Wikipedia traffic about current leaders; new mainland China followers for certain account types.
3) Do individuals access noncrisis sensitive information?	Wikipedia traffic to blocked pages; new mainland China followers for activists and foreign political figures.
4) Do these same dynamics occur in democracies and less-censored environments?	Wikipedia page views in German, Italian, Persian, and Russian.