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Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self
An anonymous reader writes "Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the minister attempting to ram the great firewall of Oz down everyone's throat, has been removing all traces of the unpopular legislation from his main website with a JavaScript filter. From the article: 'It was revealed today a script within the minister's homepage deliberately removes references to internet filtering from the list. In the function that creates the list, or "tag cloud," there is a condition that if the words "ISP filtering" appear they should be skipped and not displayed.' Bear in mind, this is the same minister that tried to get the ISP of tech forum Whirlpool to pull the site after users there posted a response email from the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority)."
We keep on asking for Conroy to shut up but this is not what we meant :(
Thanks for giving us Americans the day off.
When you get a letter sent from Australia with writing covered by black marker, you'll know its the "No Problem" reply from us.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
Haha I got modded funny? What the ... :)
We will continue to seek effective means to block 'filth' (his word) from entering our country any way we can.
= oh, he is about 240 years too late.
You can't handle the truth.
This just popped into my head reading this thread, but I'm wondering how much child porn goes on these days. I have to say, I've been around some fucking weird corners of the net, but the only time I hear about kiddie porn is when politicians talk about it. Paging Dr. Freud?
Put another way, I'd love to hear someone ask these guys "can you prove that this is a social problem and not some weird fixation on your part?"
There's just something inherently distasteful about a middle aged man, not involved with law enforcement, getting worked into a lather over naked children. It's creepy.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
(* who should definitely join forces to form the Sexy Pirate party)
They would get totally p0wned by the Nude Ninja Party