Today is the third annual Banned Websites Awareness Day, sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  As more resources appear online, it is incumbent that we remain vigilant about the harms of internet censorship, including for students. Too many students are finding that overzealous administrators are keeping them from the very tools that will allow them to be truly literate in a digital world.

To learn more about the topic of filtering in schools, check out these resources:

• Filtering and the First Amendment, by FTRF Deputy Director Deborah Caldwell-Stone and FTRF Trustee Helen Adams
• Revisiting CIPA: 10 Years Later: two Google Hangouts from this summer's Children's Internet Protection Act symposium - Introduction & Overview and Themes & Conclusions.
• FTRF General Counsel Theresa Chmara's July 2012 memorandum on recent filtering decisions
• ACLU's "Don't Filter Me" campaign, with a focus on the filtering of LGBT content

Also a good read is YALSA's Wendy Stephens' blog post today.

If you have more resources, add them in the comments or tweet them to us at @ftrf