Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election day

Re:Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election... by apapapa on Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:08PM (#39308464)

It's still crazy but more reasonable to shut it down for exams than elections

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Re:Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election... by tmpz22 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:48PM (#39308868)

I wonder if exam season is just a convenient excuse to test the system in case it needs to be deployed for civic unrest.

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Re:Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election... by londons_explore on Thursday February 08, 2024 @06:27PM (#39309252)

I wonder how long exam season is... If it's a 3 hour period it's quite different than a 3 month period.

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Re:Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election... by apapapa on Thursday February 08, 2024 @06:56PM (#39309489)

One of the many issues with censorship

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Re:Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election... by vuln on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:54PM (#39310486)

People can just sleep off 3 hours. If it were three months people would be finding another way within the first 7 days most likely less.

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Re:Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election... by bluish29 on Friday February 09, 2024 @05:30AM (#39313424)

Maybe, but in all these countries it happens that this happens with specific exams that are national and are very core to student's future. This does not have an equivalent in most of the western countries (probably all?). I wonder if these exams were in the western countries, what would their approach to prevent mass cheating on national scale?

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