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The first rule of censorship, don’t talk about censorship. Conroy puts this into practice on his own website.

Posted on 16/06/2010 by John

Stephen Conroy has been caught out yet again. This time its not suspicious ski trip deals with TV executives, its censorship of his own website.

A user on Whirlpool Forums has stumbled across some code on http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/ which is visible for anyone who visits the site and goes to view source.

Its a bit of JavaScript code that removes any mention of “ISP Filtering” from the word cloud on the front page.

for(var i=0; i<=15/*<-Important! increase this value by 1 everytime a keyword is excluded below*/; i++)
{
var z=0;
for(var j=0; j<split.length; j++) {
if (unique[i]==split[j]) {
z=z+1;
}

counts[i] = z;
}
var size = getTagClass(z);
//Customise the tag-cloud to display what shows up
if (unique[i] == “ISP Filtering”)
{
continue;
}
document.write(‘<a class=”‘+size+’” href=\”http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/search?q=’+unique[i]+’”>’+unique[i]+’</a> ‘);
}
document.write(‘</p>’);
document.write(‘</div>’);
}

This code is what builds the word cloud, if it finds “ISP Filtering” then it ignores it and moves onto the next item.

You can see this for yourself. Go to the page, right click in your browser, select “View Source”.

Looks like censorship has already started. Is Conroy trying to hide the fact that he endorses a clearly failing policy?

How much longer do we have to tolerate this minister who is

- doing deals with TV execs by holidaying with them and giving them millions of dollars in licensing reductions
- wasting millions of dollars on a flawed filtering system that will do nothing to protect anyone
- covering up filtering topics on his own website
- spending billions of dollars on a broadband network I would love to have, but the cost and going at it alone is stupid

Kevin Rudd needs to take action against his failing ministers. Lack of action shows that he believes in what they are doing which will hurt Labor at the next election.

Further Reading:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1391908

http://www.news.com.au/technology/conroys-website-removes-references-to-filter/story-e6frfro0-1225834474153

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