Today is a day to raise awareness for the yellow caution sign that shows up when students get blocked from prohibited sites while using school computers.

Today is the American Association of School Librarians’s “Banned Websites Awareness Day.”

The day is designed “to raise awareness of overly restrictive blocking in schools and school libraries of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools,” according to JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights.

Students in school are angry because their teachers give them homework online but when they try to do it on campus the website is blocked.

AASL is asking school librarians and other people like teachers to help them promote the overly restrictive filtering of the internet.

“The commission asks students and advisers to test their Internet filters to see if their filtering goes beyond what filters are charged with blocking by the Children’s Internet Protection Act as numerous studies and groups have argued.” according to JEA’s Scholastic Press Right.