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Algeria Blocks Internet to Prevent Students Cheating During Exams

posted by mrpg on Sunday June 24 2018, @02:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-carrier dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

As solutions go, it is certainly radical: in order to thwart a mass epidemic of cheating by students taking their school leaving exams, Algeria shut down the internet for up to three hours a day this week – for everyone.

[... The public telephone operator Algérie Telecom] published a timetable of the shutdown schedule: three one-hour blackouts, coinciding with the first hour of each baccalaureate exam, on Wednesday, and two each on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

[...] Cheating among the more than 700,000 students who take Algeria's bac was so widespread in 2016 that the education ministry declared several exams void and using new question papers.

[...] Algeria is not, however, the only country to take such radical steps during exam season: Syria, Iraq, Mauritania, Uzbekistan and several Indian states reportedly block access to the internet. Ethiopia shuts down social media.

Algeria blocks internet to prevent students cheating during exams

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @01:13PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @01:13PM (#697538)

    A local cache of Wikipedia? Looks like something over 12 GB, compressed -- but it might be pretty slow to search the compressed version? In that case you need uncompressed at something north of 10 TB.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]

    But that is just a fraction of the web... A local cache of Internet Archive Wayback Machine -- http://archive.org/web/petabox.php [archive.org] ...

     

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 24 2018, @01:21PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday June 24 2018, @01:21PM (#697542) Journal

    Uncompressed is only 10 TB if you include all edit histories. You do blow past 10 TB if you want the non-text content:

    The size of the media files in Wikimedia Commons, which includes the images, videos and other media used across all the language-specific Wikipedias was described as well over 23 TB near the end of 2014.

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