Toronto school board extends ban on Snapchat, Instagram, Netflix

Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Snapchat along with Instagram and Netflix will continue to be blocked from the Toronto school board's Wi-Fi network this school year.

In a statement released last week, the school board said there were unexpected delays in upgrading its Wi-Fi network during the summer.

According to the board, almost half the schools in the system use an “older, slower network,” which cannot keep up with the growing traffic. The traffic overload has caused “slowness and lagging on the network.”

The board will revisit the policy in June 2018.

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