The minister in charge of the Government’s web censorship plan has been caught out censoring his own website.
 
The front page of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s official website displays a list of topics connected to his portfolio, along with links to more information about each one.
 
All the usual topics are there – cyber safety, the national broadband network, broadcasters ABC and SBS, digital television and so on.
 
All except one.
 
It was revealed today a script within the minister’s homepage deliberately removes references to internet filtering from the list.

Funny thing about this is that it’s not actually removed. Oh, no, that would take technical ability, and apparently the good Senator’s staff hasn’t got that, because instead of fixing things so that the tag/keyword actually is not part of the tag cloud, there’s just a piece of JavaScript that causes it to be invisible. It’s still there. Search engines can read it. So can people with JavaScript turned off, or who look at the code for the site.

This is the website of a minister for technology, and neither he nor his staff appear to know anything at all about the subject at hand…

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