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 parliament. pic.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.
"The Department has manually fixed this and has restored access," the spokeswoman said. "The department has also asked the [filter] vendor to fix this categorisation error worldwide."
Luckily, the Internet filter has not dismissed Rudd's site for illegal gambling and pornography -- two other categories it looks for to prevent hacking and inappropriate content, much like high school Internet filters everywhere.
In what seems like an oversight, Kevin Rudd must have forgotten to send a thank you note and flowers to Azize for bringing the error to light, or he just assumed being classified as a weapon was no mistake.
I note that no thank you has been forthcoming from @MrKRudd #justsaying #JeSuisKevin — Maiy Azize (@MaiyAzize) April 28, 2015