Alan in Sydney

Okay, I'll try one more time, although all these posts are really proving is how little you understand about blogging. Blogging is a dialogue. You need to be answering comments, not posting the thought of the day in language dense with complicated phrases and devoid of any actual content. The evidence of this blog is that the showstopper issue is the filter. The expression 'showstopper' means an issue that must be solved before other can be addressed. If you proceed with the filter you will endanger children in 2 ways. The traffic in child pornography will continue unchanged, but many assume it has been resolved. Families will be less likely to install point-of=use filters and less to closely supervise their children online. One way you could actually engage in dialogue would be to address the fact that most child pornography is not transmitted by HTTP and HTTP is the only protocol the filter can touch. Moreover an automatic filter is basically down to testing for particular words and phrases. That is a recipe for disaster. First it is extraordinarily easy to circumvent, second it leads to problems such as Britain's recent experience with banning Wikipedia and earlier experiences where researchers in breast cancer, for instance, found they were being blacklisted for using a word denoting the object of their research, Knowing that the filter will not touch nonHTTP traffic, why are you gung-ho for the filter?