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Internet filtering won't stop peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic—so why bother
I would think that most if not all illegal material shared on the internet gets propagated through Peer to peer, therefore the filter wouldn't have too much impact on the people trafficking illegal content. If an illegal website is found just shut it down, also, how are encrypted connections such as VPNs going to be handled? Surely the government is not going to decrypt all encryptions?
Posted by Ciccio / 10 Dec 2008 5:29pm / Permalink
Peer 2 Peer will simple get around any of the black listings that you make.
Posted by Shane / 10 Dec 2008 4:48pm / Permalink
The Government understands that ISP-level filtering is not a 'silver bullet'. We have always viewed ISP-level filtering as one part of a broader government initiative for protecting our children online.
Technology is improving all the time. Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial.
Stephen Conroy
Return to the Promoting a Civil and Confident Online Society blog topic or see other responses:
This is an attack on freedom of speech- Why aren’t PC-level filters sufficient?
- How will the blacklist be maintained?
- Why won’t the Government publish what is included in the ACMA blacklist?
- How does ACMA determine what sites will be included on the blacklist?
- Hasn’t the Government already undertaken a trial of the technical issues surrounding internet filtering? Didn’t this trial find that filtering was not effective?
- Won’t internet filtering reduce internet speeds?
- So what else is the Government doing to help protect children online?