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I'm joining the droves here expressing my opposition to the clean feed. Believe me this will be a major factor when I vote next - VOTEs, mate, VOTES WILL BE LOST. Please listen to the industry: the filter will not work. It will not achieve your goals and in fact it will lull parents into a false sense of security - thereby making the situation worse. We already have terrible internet connection quality in Australia and this filter will just slow it down further. We are already an internet backwater and it gets worse every day. The filter will be an expensive failure - this is what you want to be known for? Senator Alston has gone down in internet history as the man known as "the world's biggest luddite". Please don't follow suit. You're currently heading for a legacy of "world's biggest luddite AND censorship proponent". If you MUST go ahead with the filter, you need to make it something that parents can opt in to. People who want the filter can have it, but don't force it on the rest of us. Forcing the feed on everyone and registering people who opt out... that's censorship, bullying and NOT what Australia is supposed to be about.