Shocking: Iraq Disables Internet In The Country To Prevent Exam Malpractices

The Iraqi government has shut
down internet access in a bid to
discourage examination
malpractice among students
taking exams this week.

Meanwhile, this is not the first
time the country is shutting
down internet access as they
periodically do it for political,
security and examination
purposes.


According to data from DYN
Research, which is an organization that tracks web outages all over the world. The company's report on their data indicates that internet access was slightly entirely blocked for complete three hours on saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning this week, between 5AM and 8AM local time.

DYN reported...
"There was certainly a lot of
scepticism about this explanation last summer, but the outages did coincide with exams and nothing emerged to dispute the explanation," Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at DYN, tells Vocativ.


It is understood that the Iraqi
government periodically block
internet and even social media sites in attempt to fight
insecurity and other purposes.
Apart from Iraq, other nations
like Uzbekistan, forced a
nationwide block in 2014, also
in Indian state of Gujarat, blocked mobile networks for
complete four hours this year
to thwart cheating on a national
test for accountants examination.

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