[ih] "#Internet shutdowns intended to prevent cheating on national exams continue in #Iraq and #Syria.

[David Belson]

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Iraq and Syria have been shutting down the Internet an an attempt to
prevent cheating on exams for the last several years — Syria (2021
<https://blog.cloudflare.com/syria-exam-related-internet-shutdowns>, 2022
<https://blog.cloudflare.com/syria-sudan-algeria-exam-internet-shutdown>,
2023 <https://blog.cloudflare.com/q2-2023-internet-disruption-summary>) and
Iraq (2022
<https://blog.cloudflare.com/syria-sudan-algeria-exam-internet-shutdown>,
2023 <https://blog.cloudflare.com/exam-internet-shutdowns-iraq-algeria>) —
and other countries do it as well, including India, Mauritania, Uzbekistan,
and Algeria. It is, to be sure, a heavy-handed approach to solving the
problem.

—David

On Jun 5, 2024 at 1:02:41 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> In Iraq, shutdowns began May 21 and will occur through July 2. In Syria,
> shutdowns began May 26 and will occur through June 13...
> ➔➔https://x.com/CloudflareRadar/status/1798337167124775034
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