Ian

Is Australia a Free country, Not anymore, our freedom is being whittled away each day with policies such as this. We all couldn't believe the Chinese filtered the internet there, now they are starting to open it up and what does Australia do - Filter it just like the Chinese did. Lets keep Australians brainwashed with what the government wants us to see and hear. This is one way of sending propaganda to the Australian people, dictating to third world countries how free and rich Australia is but look how bound we really are becoming. Keep the internet open, spend the money on the High speed broadband. All this does is encourage more deviant ways to get around the system, it only prevents people from surfing freely. Most stuff you try and filter will become available through some other encrypted means that cannot be filtered rendering the whole project a significant waste of money. If you say they wont find another way, look at what they said about DVD encryption, music DRM and so on, it is all cracked, this system will be compromised within weeks of being launched. Also - I believe this will give an out to would be people that want to do what you are filtering, if you don't filter it then they have a legal argument that if you didn't filter it then it is OK to view or do. Filtering will give the criminals a good legal argument to keep doing what they are doing and harder for the police to prosecute. Please spend my tax money on more worthwhile things.