Rastko Petrovic

In spite that closed testing had shown that internet filter doesn't work and I quote from Government own PDF ( chapter 1 page 15) Did you read it senator "“" Despite of a general nature of advances in current trial and previous trial most filters are not presently able to identify illegal content and content that may be regarded as inappropriate that is carried via majority of non-web protocols" Internet speed will greatly affected, even CEO of WEBSHIELD has admited that there is huge network implications but yet senator you refuse to see it. And the sot will go up because It will cost ISP in access of 100k or more it implements hardware required for testing purposes + cost for filtering software. filtering software, implementation, licensing, operational management all cost money. Businesses past these costs onto consumers. 3% of over blocking has huge impact. Let me put in in prospective for you A large ISP (Telstra, Optus) will have 10000 hits per second for http sites. 3% = 300. 3600 second in 1 hour x 300 =1080000 * false positives in 1 hour? x 24 hours. Get the picture It will cause for a family to lose their online business and all possession they worked hard for. Is government open to civil suit? How does Senator Conroy proposing to do live trials without actual real people /customers? The appropriate methods of protecting oneself and one's family from disturbing exercises of free speech are to block it out at the thresholds of our spheres of legitimate personal control – our households, our families, and so on. It cannot, should not, must not be made the responsibility of government to emplace limitations on the free exercise of speech. Those limits will ultimately be used against the citizenry in ways none of us on the right or left can imagine or accept... but then it may be too late. The testimony of history is unrelenting about this danger. Minister listen to industry experts...You are not one.