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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: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:04AM
What would you do, suspend any figment of normal life because of ISIS? If avoidance is possible, why should the kids be affected more than they already are?
Isn't a 3 hours phone service interruption going to have less impacting and shorter effects?
And the personnel to control that the ban is effective (assuming you can find them)... who should support the cost for them? What about the delays in starting the exam?
A typical US reaction - damn'd be the costs, legislating an interdiction surely makes it automagically happen (see the prohibition and war on drugs; they should ban the second law of thermodynamics as well), the politicians just need to appear of doing something (see the TSA/Security theatre).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford