National shutdown
- Total Duration 3 hours
Syria
- Population
- 24,672,760
Freedom House rates Internet freedom as Not Free
Other supporting information
Day 5 of a series of exam-related shutdowns in Syria. This is part of a trend to shutting down of access to the Internet for everyone in Syria during official exams as the Syrian government belief that this will reduce cheating during high school exams.
We have repeatedly written about here on Pulse, Internet shutdowns cause great harm to a country’s economy and society and are in our opinion NOT the appropriate mechanism to cope with potential exam cheating.
The shutdown is visible on IODA, Cloudflare Radar, and google Transparency report as detailed in the graphs below.
IODA
Google Transparency Report
Cloudflare Radar
