Mark G

I'm curious that the Labor party took exactly the wrong lesson from the failure of the former government's free download filter. The tiny number of downloads for that product should have been seen as a pretty good warning sign that the public is not interested in being "filtered"—outside of a tiny, noisy segment that wants to impose its views on everyone else. The comments here make that dichotomy even more obvious. The only thing that might save Labor's bacon on this is that both major parties have a record for being totally out of touch on this issue so in a sense there's nowhere for the general public to go. Having said that, Labor will lose my vote if this plan reaches the senate (where it will fail anyway; the Libs & Greens are opposed).