Emotions are running high about today’s FCC vote to repeal net neutrality, and for good reason. Maybe that’s why, apparently, a lot of people on Twitter can’t seem to spell “net neutrality.” One of the latest trending hashtags is #NetNeutality. If you set your location to New York, Boston, Seattle, or many other US cities, it actually appears in the trending sidebar instead of #NetNeutrality.
A misspelled #NetNeutality hashtag is topping Twitter
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is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.
Some of the #NetNeutality tweets acknowledge the misspelling as a joke, or include it alongside #NetNeutrality to capture a larger audience. But plenty of them just seem to be mistakes — or who knows, maybe ISPs have started throttling the letter “r.”
Fortunately, it’s easy to tell the two hashtags apart at a glance, because #NetNeutrality has a special loading-symbol emoji attached to it. Check out the tweets below. Can you spot the difference? If so, congratulations. We just wish actually saving net neutrality were that simple.
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