Day 346- Access Denied?

Dec 11 346/366- Today when I went to log onto flickr.com at school the access was denied. They did this earlier this week and I got them to release it, but I guess they changed their minds. I went to the internet filtering software (Lightspeed Technologies) website and flickr.com is rated "G, suitable for all ages including education . . . " It was manually blocked by our district it seems. I inquired why but no one yet has answered.

It's not like we just websurf all day, I teach digital photography as part of my course. We use examples from Flickr to illustrate good (& bad ) techniques, we use the discussion forums to get technical information, and many of my students have their own DSLR's and Flickr accounts. I'm a little frustrated, can you tell?

Also today FGR invades the "Flash the Flickr Gang Sign" group, hence the hand showing the Flickr Gang Sign. Some students suggested a different hand gesture but I reminded them it was a "G" rated website :)