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funkygorilla
I am going to try and be as balanced as I can on this one!
1. Internet filtering - this just won't work. Those that want to find their way around it will without any problems. This means the only people it will actually effect are genuine people who get incorrect false positives.
2. NBN - Unfortunately I think you have painted yourself into a corner with this one. Insisting on fttn does not make sense in the bush, you would have been better to set a minimum speed requirement. The other problem is that you speed you are trying to achieve will be totally inadequate within the 5 year period you have set for the project. I would consider myself an early adoptor and I know that I have a speed similar to this now, and it feels slow. This sort of makes me think I am favouring the Telstra proposal, but without structural separation this would be a disaster. We are already far behind on speed and accessibility compared with other first world countries. Telstra would price to 'maximise value' to their shareholders as they should, but this will mean high price, low adoption, and we fall even further behind.
Overall advice. Forget internet filtering and rethink the nbn I'm afraid.
Topic: Minister Tanner's welcome
