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Well you're right it can still happen, but in those cases it's still on the individual to not go through with it. If they do, then they receive whatever consequ

Well you're right it can still happen, but in those cases it's still on the individual to not go through with it. If they do, then they receive whatever consequences are socially agreed upon. But making sure that nobody can ever be in that situation seems like assuming failure from the start which greatly reduces overall freedom people have in life. And sure in cases where the results are unthinkable, e.g. mass shootings it makes sense to be preventative, e.g. controlling gun sales. But if we're talking about cheating on exams, that really doesn't make any sense. I mean worse case, the person passes knowing nothing and then first day on their job it becomes apparent they don't know jack and get fired. If they can do the job fine despite cheating then clearly the exam was pointless. Hardly justified to take down communications for the entire region.

TeMPOraL 3y ago
I think it really depends on what the exams are. As I understand it, this is about maturity exams in Algeria. Maturity exams are a kind of big deal, especially if they're using a single or small pool of variants across the entire country - a single leak can invalidate the exam for a particular subject for hundreds of thousands of people, creating a huge logistical cost and country-wide disruption - and emotional burden for the people having to retake the exam that is deciding their future. Cheating on those exams isn't something you can brush under the rug - it threatens the very core of the national public education system. It's pretty much the educational equivalent to ignoring clear voting fraud during presidential election. With all that at stake, if they're really having a big problem with cheating (especially via mobile devices and mobile Internet), then cutting off the Internet for the duration of exams seems like... an acceptable solution.

TeMPOraL 3y ago

I think it really depends on what the exams are. As I understand it, this is about maturity exams in Algeria. Maturity exams are a kind of big deal, especially if they're using a single or small pool of variants across the entire country - a single leak can invalidate the exam for a particular subject for hundreds of thousands of people, creating a huge logistical cost and country-wide disruption - and emotional burden for the people having to retake the exam that is deciding their future. Cheating on those exams isn't something you can brush under the rug - it threatens the very core of the national public education system. It's pretty much the educational equivalent to ignoring clear voting fraud during presidential election. With all that at stake, if they're really having a big problem with cheating (especially via mobile devices and mobile Internet), then cutting off the Internet for the duration of exams seems like... an acceptable solution.