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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:22AM (#203165)

    What exactly do you think they should be doing, deploy the ministry of education on the frontlines? Single-minded focus is as outdated as carts and horses.