Geoff

I am a professional software developer and have been using the internet for my education, teaching and business, every day I've worked since it was connected to Australia in 1989. Not once during this 20 years have I been inadvertently exposed to child porn. My main concerns are that it: 1) Parents should be in control of what material children see, NOT the government and certainly not a handful of right-wing religious extremists who appear to have undue influence upon our politicians. This legislation does nothing to protect children from the real dangers such as lurkers in chat groups and bullying. Only parental supervision can do that. It is far more dangerous for our children's well being to live under a far right regime of censorship than it is for them to be potentially exposed to "inappropriate" material. 2) In a country that is already an internet backwater, Senator Conroy should be focusing upon providing 100MB/s to every business and household, not crippling out future economic infrastructure back to 3rd world standards by turning ISPs into filtering police. 3) During the run up to the election it was stated that end users would be able to opt-out of the censorship, instead it simply appears that two levels of censorship are being implemented using "the children" as a means to foist totalitarian policy upon us all. Why were we lied to? 4) Power corrupts, and having a hidden black-list of banned content that cannot be reviewed or challenged by the public will certainly lead to another arrogant, power-drunk, department much like Howard's Department of Immigration. Where will it end?