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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.
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Iraqi Government Shut Down Internet to... Prevent Exam Cheating
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:05AM
A year after Iraqi officials ordered the shutdown of Internet access in nearly a quarter of the country...
That's a LOT of notice...
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