Bob

I fully support the building of an Open Acesss FTTN or FTTH, so long as it's not awarded to Telstra for more of the same monopoly. The breaking of an election promise of an OPT IN net filter to become mandatory is beyond the pale.

Your building an FTTN to speed up the slow internet we have and then the filter will slow it back down again.

I'm also very concerned about filter creep, who decides what is considered objectionable, bureaucrats? Will we wake up one day to find that some special interest group or minor "balance of power" party has vastly expanded the filter to content previously allowed.

As soon as the filters in place, internet will do what school students are doing now: use a proxy to access facebook at school. If the filter goes live, instructions on how to bypass it will be shared on every social networking site within a day.

It's unworkable, bypassable and a hundred million dollar boondoggle.

Build the FTTN, scrap the filter and put the money that would be used for the filter to the Police who will do a far better job than any filter.