Oz censorship debate censored on Comms minister's website

[tickler]

It just keeps getting stanger & stranger, funnier & funnier! |jester|

If you’re planning to censor free speech on the internet, what better approach to take than to, er, censor debate about how you’re planning to censor free speech on the internet? Brilliant. |crazy|

That, according to one sharp-eyed Register reader, is the game being played by Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, whose ministerial website is currently set up so as not to show searches on embarrassing terms such as "ISP filtering".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/25/aus_censorship_censorship/

[Ms Naughty]

They've also come up with an exciting new scheme to give every child an ID number to "track them through school." It gets more Orwellian every day.

[HouseEros]

You can sort of see the twisted, cover-your-ass logic of it. But what's scary is some this stuff might actually come into effect with the force of law over there.

[nekrom]

Rogue programmer.

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[nekrom]

They've also come up with an exciting new scheme to give every child an ID number to "track them through school." It gets more Orwellian every day.

It's a good idea, now working families will be able to compare education results with other working families.

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[Bluey]

I wonder what the odds are of this labor government getting voted back in for a second term?

[nekrom]

I wonder what the odds are of this labor government getting voted back in for a second term?

Very high seeing as working families were giving $900 each last year.

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