Australian Censor Master Censors His Own Tagcloud To Hide Anger Over Censorship
from the nicely-done dept
Stephen Conroy, the Australian Communications Minister who is the point man on pushing through Australia's latest plan to censor the internet, has apparently been caught doing a bit more local censoring. Yeebok points us to the news that Conroy's own website has a tagcloud, highlighting what people are searching for, but the script that generates the tagcloud automatically blocks the phrase "ISP filtering" from appearing in the cloud. What's most amazing, of course, is that Conroy's tech staff is apparently so clueless that they included this in the javascript which anyone could read, rather than, at the very least, hiding it serverside. Amazing. He's apparently so unable to backup his own position that he has to hide behind a weak technology hack to pretend that people aren't concerned about his plan to censor the internet. Perhaps instead of "ISP filtering" people should start searching for "censorship" on his site to see what happens...Filed Under: australia, censorship, filters, stephen conroy, tagclound
