Balanced Observation

The way I see it is that parents have a very valid argument that their children should be protected, however the reality is they need to do it. Within 24 hours of the filter being switched on, the newspapers will be running front page stories about how easy the average ten year old finds it to get around the filtering. More to the point, your filtering does not scan the images - so a naked picture of a child could simply be renamed christianangel.jpg and posted on a legitimate but hacked Christian website which would make everyone more at risk of exposure to this filth, not less. To not understand this concept shows a distinct and complete lack of the technology, which we expected from John Howard.

What I can't figure out - is the point of this to steal the family first vote, appease Fielding who gets voted out in 2010 or this is to spend taxpayer dollars enforcing music / movie companies whims. All I can say is that Implementing ISP filtering is an utterly ludicrous concept that will be more ridiculed than the alcopops tax, fuelwatch and grocerywatch combined.

I ask everyone this. How many perverts are currently in jail or facing court because of the superb effort of the police in tracking them on the internet, both here and abroad. Were these people arrested when they sent child pornography by mail? Nowhere near as often they weren't. For that the unfettered internet deserves praise, praise and more praise.

Oh and please, nail telsra to the wall. Credit Howard with the incompetence he showed in ignoring ten years of industry advice that retail and infrastructure should have been separated.