Jyan Dowl

I would ask the government to listen to ISPs and industry experts when it comes to the technical feasibility of mandatory ISP level filtering. The claimed reasons (preventing access to child pornography, C.P.) for implementing the filter are completely flawed. As C.P. is already illegal to host and view, it is unlikely to be found on any HTTP sites. When people are caught with C.P. by the police, they invariably have been emailing or trading it through peer to peer networks (which will not be filtered). It is obvious that filtering of HTTP web pages is not going to stop these activities. Even if something is on a blocked web site, there are fast and simple ways to get around the filter. All it takes is a quick search for “VPN” or “proxy” and the user will be viewing blocked content in minutes. The crux of this is: why waste millions of tax payer dollars if the filter will never be able to achieve its stated goals?