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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)."

6 of 158 comments (clear)

  1. Re:His department also self-censors their email. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2012 US Presidential Election, abridged

  2. Re:Not helpful by MichaelSmith · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    USE YOUR NOGGINS, INTERNET

    Fat chance!

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling
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  3. Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have a 7 digit UID and I have 31 first posts. You need to work on cumming first.

    1. Re:Really? by Miseph · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You appear not to have any UID. I guess that makes your 31 first posts even more impressive?

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  4. Aussie-China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are the Aussie's still allowed to speak English or do they have to speak Chinese now?

  5. Re:Quite a change by BJ_Covert_Action · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We won't bite :P

    No, but your snakes, crocodiles, jellyfish, insects, dingos, and politicians do. Don't get me wrong, Australia sounds like it is an amazing and fun place to visit. But don't be disingenuous, everything tries to kill you down there. =P

    (Except the people).

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