Concerned

Aside from the troubling fact that this filter may be used by the current and future Governments to further erode our Democratic rights; how does the Rudd Government reconcile that implementing such a filter would almost certainly negatively impact Internet speeds (which are already compromised here in Australia compared with countries overseas), especially when the Rudd Government went to the last election with the promise to construct a high-speed broadband fibre-to-the-node network that would reach 98 per cent of Australian homes by the end of 2008. One would come to the reasonable conclusion that a clean-feed filter would negate any benefits of such a proposed network - a network, which might I remind you, was a Labor election promise of 2007.