Algeria is turning off ALL of the internet to combat school cheating

[Mook]

well alright then

https://gizmodo.com/algeria-shuts-off-the-entire-countrys-internet-to-stop-1827018824

Predictably, cheating in school has advanced with time. Students have hacked servers, hit schools with DDoS attacks, and purchased schoolwork on the dark web. In an extreme measure to prevent students from leaking high school diploma exams online, Algeria has begun instituting nationwide internet blackouts.

The country will turn off mobile and landline internet service across the country for an hour at a time during the exam period, which started on Wednesday and runs through June 25. The 11 blackouts are scheduled for an hour after each exam begins. In 2016, exam questions were reportedly leaked online and authorities were dissatisfied with a less stringent attempt to limit social media during the 2017 exams.

The sweeping shutdown will also block Facebook for the entirety of the exam period, Education Minister Nouria Benghabrit told Algerian newspaper Annahar, according to the BBC. Benghabrit reportedly said they are “not comfortable” with their choice to shut down all internet service, but that they “should not passively stand in front of such a possible leak”.

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[Flyn]

We should close the hospitals to prevent drug abuse.

 

[Mook]

Couldnt they just cut internet and block cell data AT the schools? And require everyone to check in laptops, phones, etc? A country wide blackout seems crazy.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Probably a lot of Pron usage there too.

 

[Spectragod]

Couldnt they just cut internet and block cell data AT the schools? And require everyone to check in laptops, phones, etc? A country wide blackout seems crazy.

Nah, punish everyone for it, I think that argument sounds like the gun control agenda.....

 

[Flyn]

You guys realize, they probably have one guy in charge of the internet and he has one switch.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Or this;