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Internet filter running on Parliament net connection blocks things it wasn’t meant to, including several public transport timetable sites, iPad reviews, and a News Ltd talkback site.
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“Getting individual sites unblocked is a particularly laborious process. If you need to use a website, you often do not have time to do that,” Ryan said. “How do you oversee what this thing is picking up?”
Department of Parliamentary Services deputy secretary David Kenny told Ryan the filter had been replaced in 2009 and that it blocked a list of sites. If members of parliament had complaints, he said, they should contact parliamentary official the Usher of the Black Rod as a first step.
If they can’t get it right at home, how can they get it right for us?
