seanoff M EComm

TOTAL LUNACY!!! the internet in Aus is already backwards and adding this filtering to the already slow speeds we get (at high prices too) will only serve to eat into whatever bandwidth we get. Anyone wanting to run a website will be forced to use offshore servers to have any hope of getting adequate bandwidth to run a reasonable site. Add to this the nannying that internet users will be subject to is ridiculous. What are you going to filter? Esp peer to peer. I torrent Top Gear (SBS show them a yr late), which is strictly illegal but hardly a huge deal. is the filter going to stop that? Who will make sure it doesn't spill into political comment? politicians are not to be trusted and their party machines are to be trusted less. I'm a parent and i monitor what my daughter is doing online. it is not the govt's job to be my daughter's parent, it's mine and i do it well. If you want to be a parent to my daughter, can you come and babysit her so i can go to the pub on a friday night occasionally. that'd be nice. if you can't do that, keep the **** away, I will continue to be a good dad and you can spend this money on education or health where it will be some use.