Internet Slow Down Day
According to an article on BoingBoing called “Today Is #Internetslowdownday“, several websites will be displaying a “progress wheel” or some other indication that net neutrality, the concept that all data on the Internet should be treated the same, will harm the users of their sites. Some of the sites you’ll see this on include WordPress (the .com version, it won’t affect our hosted versions of WordPress), Netflix, BoingBoing and many others. If you get questions about the progress wheels or other signs on the Internet today, you can let your patrons know what’s going on and educate them about the importance of net neutrality (especially for libraries!!) at the same time!