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National shutdown

  • Total Duration 3 hours

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Population
24,672,760

Freedom House rates Internet freedom as Not Free

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Day 7 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

Internet Connectivity for Syrian Arab Republic

Google Transparency Report

Product traffic in Syria

Cloudflare Radar

Internet traffic in Syria