Ethiopia turns off the internet

Ubbquittious

Yup. The whole country. Though you could get around it with a small satellite dish or by climbing up a steep hill with an antenna and grabbing a wifi signal from a neighbouring country.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/31/ethiopia-turns-off-internet-students-sit-exams

Wonder if their fearless leader posed for a photo-op as he threw some big switch attached to a beige box on the wall in a datacentre.

But all-in-all I think it's a great idea. They should do it here. 3 days in the middle of June and 3 days at Christmas. Give people a chance to go outside and realise there's a life to be had away from the screen. Or give some IT-based people like me the chance to actually do some work instead of sitting on boards the whole day.

Or would it be like the Good Friday alcohol purchasing ban? A full month of moaning leading up to it and a full month after?

jeanjolie

Real reason is probably no money to support the infrastructure.

There's definitely some corruption behind this.

Atlantic Dawn

What a backward kip.

Jim Bob Scratcher

When you look at the thread about some bloke being wrongly accused of being a peadophile it would be no harm if they did it here for a while tbh

Persephone kindness

Did you read the article? They did it to stop cheating in exams. Last year people posted questions online.

Ubbquittious

Persephone kindness wrote: »

Did you read the article? They did it to stop cheating in exams. Last year people posted questions online.

Yup. I suppose they could use that excuse over here as well.

mzungu

It's only for exams. No biggie. That said, the internet connection there is pretty dodgy at the best of times.

Atlantic Dawn

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

What a backward kip.

It's a beautiful country with really lovely people

Persephone kindness

The govt tends to shut down over protests they shut it down last year for two months. But that was nothing to do with exams.

Persephone kindness

bubblypop wrote: »

It's a beautiful country with really lovely people

It is. A country is not it's govt.

Persephone kindness

mzungu wrote: »

It's only for exams. .

They have done it before periodically for months at a time for political reasons. Last Oct was one such case.

newwan

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Yup. The whole country. Though you could get around it with a small satellite dish or by climbing up a steep hill with an antenna and grabbing a wifi signal from a neighbouring country.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/31/ethiopia-turns-off-internet-students-sit-exams

Wonder if their fearless leader posed for a photo-op as he threw some big switch attached to a beige box on the wall in a datacentre.

But all-in-all I think it's a great idea. They should do it here. 3 days in the middle of June and 3 days at Christmas. Give people a chance to go outside and realise there's a life to be had away from the screen. Or give some IT-based people like me the chance to actually do some work instead of sitting on boards the whole day.

Or would it be like the Good Friday alcohol purchasing ban? A full month of moaning leading up to it and a full month after?

Says the guy who's posting on the internet

Ubbquittious

newwan wrote: »

Says the guy who's posting on the internet

I'd pen a letter from my inkwell to one of those loose-leaf periodicals on parchment but most people are too lazy and disorganised to open the window on time for the carrier pidgeon to deliver it

YFlyer

Thank God its them instead of you.

Persephone kindness

YFlyer wrote: »

Thank God its them instead of you.

The boom town rats must be huge over there.

YFlyer

Persephone kindness wrote: »

The boom town rats must be huge over there.

A rat trap instead of a web.