Battlewench

Net filter is fail.

More damage than good with be done by censoring the internet. This is a suppressive measure.

Governments are not there to spoon feed us democracy. People should have the right to choose their viewing.

Children are central to this debate. In that a) they are being exploited for child porn, and b) they may have access to potentially harmful material over the net. We obviously have to protect them, however having the government decide for us what we can and can't view takes away public accountability and self-responsibility, which the government should be fostering. This is not a protective measure that will benefit society as a whole.

It is an excessively paternalistic measure with extremely fuzzy boundary lines. Once we go beyond the obviously damaging material (ie child porn), what is or isn't "inappropriate content" can be a highly subjective matter that should be up to the individual to decide.

Net filter = Epic fail.