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Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self

Posted by timothy on from the see-also-recursion dept.

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)."

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  1. National Disgrace by Anakie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am so embarrassed to be an Australian right now...

  2. Re:Elections are coming up... by Architect_sasyr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm trying to figure out why we don't see more of it on the standard bullshit news shows.

    And then I realised where all the funding and authorisation comes from. I just find it... disturbing... that we are all of a sudden getting massive spin coverage on the facebook trolls over death-pages. Again, until I realise that it's the perfect reason to "censor" the internet.

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  3. Re:Elections are coming up... by some_guy_88 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any competent opposition could make it into a very major issue.

    *sigh*..

  4. Re:Elections are coming up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    all of a sudden getting massive spin coverage on the facebook trolls over death-pages.

    The massive spin coverage of Facebook trolls is in the MURDOCH press. Why? Because news corp owns MySpace, the competition. Call me cynical, but it's pretty bloody obvious.