Asher Moses reports:
He wants to censor the internet but what will Communications Minister Stephen Conroy do about a spoof website that uses his own name to protest against the Government’s internet filtering policy?
A net prankster has taken advantage of Conroy’s failure to reserve his own domain name by registering stephenconroy.com.au and turning it into an anti-censorship protest site.
Under the banner “Stephen Conroy: Minister for Fascism”, the site includes a disparaging cartoon strip, a nasty online poll, links to news stories regarding Conroy’s internet filtering plan and links to web pages where people can complain about the policy.
It comes after a former Telstra employee Leslie Nassar created a satirical “Fake Stephen Conroy” Twitter account, which controversially led him to be disciplined by the telco.
Read more in The Age.
The site was removed some 24 hours after going live.
You can interact with, what appear to be, some of the people behind this, via this respected discussion site http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1343952
The site is currently still available in Google cache, here. If it’s gone, the text on the home page said:
followed by a list of links to news coverage of the issue.