The Australian parliament's internal Internet filter was on the side of right, when it gave former prime minister Kevin Rudd's website the classification of "weapons" and subsequently blocked it.
Maiy Azize, a campaigner for the Australian Greens, first realised the error on Monday.
.@MrKRudd Fair shake of the sauce bottle! Your website has been blocked by parliamentpic.twitter.com/b3etNcIORh
— Maiy Azize (@MaiyAzize) April 27, 2015
A spokesperson for the Department of Parliamentary Services, which manages parliament's central computing facilities, told Fairfax Media a vendor's automated scanners were behind the mistake — a mishap that likely came about due to the transcript of a speech Rudd gave recently in New York, where he mentioned "new weapons of mass destruction," being published on his website. Read more...
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