Ethiopia shuts down national internet "to prevent exam cheating"The entire nation of Ethiopia -- a corrupt, oligarchic state with the distinction of being "the world's first turnkey surveillance state" where spy technology from the "free world" is used to spy on the whole country -- just dropped off the internet. report this adThe ruling clique says it turned off the country's internet to prevent Ethiopian students from accessing final exam questions via Facebook groups run by the global Ethiopian diaspora, and indeed, last year's exams were spoiled by early-circulated exam questions. But Ethiopia routinely disappears from the world's internet in response to dissent and protest, and these are never far from the surface in Ethiopia, so the exams might just be a convenient excuse. Indeed, this is just one among various reasons that Ethiopian authorities have used to justify censorship and shutdowns in recent years. Ethiopia has blocked the Internet on three occasions since huge anti-government protests exploded in November 2015.

Source: Ethiopian News June 01, 2017 16:41 UTC