Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy — who has been responsible for pushing through Australia’s national Internet censorship program — has been caught censoring his own website: the script that creates a tag cloud of topics covered on his site had been modified to ignore any references to his censorship initiatives. This means that visitors to his site would not have an easy means of reading the Minister’s statements in support of censorship, and anyone who relied on the tag-cloud to understand the Minister’s agenda would have no way of knowing he’d been involved in the censorship initiative.
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.
The discovery is unlikely to do any favours for Senator Conroy’s web filtering policy, which has been criticised for its secrecy.
Conroy’s website removes references to filter
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