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As an IT Technician I can honestly say that the net filtering proposal will fail. I urge the Government to consider the implications of subjecting current and future broadband speeds to any kind of ISP level filtering system.

The reality is that 90% of all teenage boys and girls know how to circumvent this filter and those that don't will soon find out how. Every techie and his friends know how to do the same. The various methods that can be used to defeat a filter are undetectable and easily employed. Why is the Government wasting millions of dollars of tax payers money on an already doomed idealism at a time when we can do better things with this money?

I trust Minister Conroy will see the light of reality and forget this stupid net filtering idea. Leave children's net safety to the parents where it belongs and stop being a nanny style government. It is not what we want.

Freedom of speech, either good or bad, is the cornerstone of a our democracy. Destroy that and you destroy the very foundation this great country was built upon.