Darque

To everyone posting "Filtering won't work", "it will degrade our already slow internet"... you are not telling the government anything they do not already know. They are not listening to industry experts and results from tests they already have conducted, what makes you think they are going to listen to any of you? They have their backs against the wall on this. They can't back down lest look weak on the sickening issue of child pr0n. A question that should be asked is "What is the measurable?" By what do they gauge their sucess in curbing distribution of such material? Followed by a two-pronged question of "Did you simply drive it further underground?" and "If you have a measurable, that means you've been tracking distribution. Why not persue it? Why close the garden gate and pretend the leaves won't still blow in?" The other aspect of this I find particularly sicken is the further exploitation of children by the government. To think that the Blacklist only has sites related to images of child abuse is naive. They have created a conduit to censor any material deemed unpalettable to a select few, and have been screeching "think of the children" to silence resistence. I have worked in IT for 20 years. I know your plans will fail and severely hinder this nations future in the digital age. I am also a father, and it's my job to keep my children safe. There are already laws that cover those who don't. Reinforce them and punish those responsible, not the nation.

And to FiltersRGood - why look abroad, when they are already looking at us and questioning it. Clearly you haven't been reading widely enough.