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Iraqi Government Shut Down Internet to... Prevent Exam Cheating

posted by n1 on Tuesday June 30 2015, @02:06AM   
from the official-story dept.

AnonTechie writes:

A year after Iraqi officials ordered the shutdown of Internet access in nearly a quarter of the country to limit the ability of ISIS to communicate, the government ordered a complete shutdown of Internet service in the country for three hours on Saturday, June 27. A shorter interruption followed today. At least one of these outages was apparently intended to block a different sort of message traffic: the sharing of answers for national exams for entry into junior high school.

The outage began at 5:00 am in Iraq and lasted until 8:00 am, based on data from Dyn Research.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/iraqi-government-shut-down-internet-to-prevent-exam-cheating/

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• Junior high school entrance exams? Junior high school entrance exams? (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 30 2015, @02:48AM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday June 30 2015, @02:48AM (#203153) Homepage Journal

  Where Im from you attend the school thats closest to home.

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• Re:Junior high school entrance exams? (Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:26AM

  by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:26AM (#203169) Journal

  Where you are from Junior High isn't the highest level learning institution for the vast majority of the population.

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