13tales

Thankyou for responding Minister Conroy, some other points I would like to address to you:

1) This filter simply WILL NOT WORK. Any motivated person with a minimum of technical knowledge could circumvent it by means of a VPN or other similar service. An astute observer will note that my current IP address does not match my geographic location (I'm actually an Australian working in Japan). Similar systems will bypass the filter entirely and are freely available. Means are also available for encrypting and anonymising peer to peer traffic. Those who distribute child pornography will not be impacted by your filtering measures.

2) Since the filter is easily circumvented, how will you penalise circumvention? Would not any resources dedicated to policing circumvention of the filter be better utilised elsewhere?