Concerned Australian

Generally speaking while encryption is legal filtering won't make a dent in illegal activities but will encourage criminals to use cryptography making it even more difficult to detect. Blocking encrypted traffic or making encryption illegal will not fly. ---- Since this this major and obvious factor seems to be ignored, I am curious about this detail. If the proposed black listed content would be blocked then why not publish the black lists making troubleshooting and detecting false positives possible? The excuse that publishing black lists would point to illegal material is ridiculous because the content itself would already be blocked. Only the IPs or URLs to already blocked content need to be published for troubleshooting, not the content itself. ---- And if a web site of legitimate and lawful business gets mistakenly black listed there needs to be a way to correct the problem in a matter of minutes. But the smallest time unit the government knows how to work with is a week. When federal government or classification agencies get involved this will turn into many months, if at all possible. Even if ISP level filtering was technically possible it would destroy online business for Australians. ---- Give this money to police, schools, hospitals, use it to encourage economy, put it alternative fuel research, do whatever constructive with it. We Australians payed you, the government, this money to use for our good, not to waste it on a futile crusade.