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)."

Comments

Not what we want

[rjames13]

We keep on asking for Conroy to shut up but this is not what we meant :(

Re:National Disgrace

[chromas]

Thanks for giving us Americans the day off.

Re:Elections are coming up...

[tsm_sf]

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.