Australian's appear to want free speech!

I am happy, if somewhat surprised that the governmet has opened this blog and requested input from the general public on some of these issue.

It seems to me so far they done an overwhelming job of ignoring what the general public have been saying about their communications policies. I'm obviously speaking about their internet filtering plans.

My question is, at what point will senator Conroy address any of the myriad of questions\concerns being raised by the internet industry and the public about his misguided plans for mandatory internet content filtering?

just incase he's missed the problems people have, here's a few - 1. How do you plan to rectify the issue of dramaticly reducing acccess speeds, or do you believe that the current projects of speed loss are accceptable? 2. For a highly intrusive and expensive plan, you won't be able to cover the transmission of illegal content through peer-to-peer networks. Considering these networks are one of the most common methods of transferring illegal content such as child pornography, do you not see this as a major issue?

3. The Ban list. This is the biggest issue of all. firstly why will the blacklist not be available for public viewing? what assurances are there that this list won't be expanded to cover other topics such as religious and political views in the future?

4. Finally, your policy is, in my eye's a statement that the government doesn't believe Australian's have the ability to educuate their children about safe internet use... Don't you think this is slightly insulting towards your voters?