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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)."

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  1. Re:His department also self-censors their email. by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: -1, Troll

    Haahahahaha!

    You were modded 'overrated', motherfucker.

    That means that you got greedy. You tried to leverage your first post to show everybody that you passed Javascript 101. Look at that 5-digit I.D.! You're one smart motherfucker. I bet you design websites that make cool noises when you mouse-over menu links.

    But you were modded ever-rated. That means that some chickenshit cocksucker didn't like what you had to say and didn't want to lose future points modding down your most informative post. Infuriating, isn't it? You want to strangle the living shit out of the cocksucker who clicked that. You want to tell him, "say it to my face not online motherfucker and see what happens" before you bust him in the chops.

    But that pussy will remain free to mod the rest of your posts down. Come back under a userID with more digits and call that bitch out on his own turf. Make sure that the little fag expends his brownie points so that the rest of us can sleep easy tonight!

  2. YouJ f4il it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll