raysydney

Why does the government continue to go ahead with these web filter trials? It's obvious to any technical person that filtering out the type of material the government is suggesting is a technical impossibility. Most of this type of garbage being traded amongst people is not done on public websites, but rather in private irc chat rooms, bulletin boards, p2p sites etc.. and none of this will (or even can) be filtered. Not to mention web proxies and VPNs which will get around the filters even for any publicly available web material. This policy will NOT AFFECT THE DISTRIBUTION OF PEDOPHILE MATERIAL, but at the same time provide an opportunity for this government or any future government to restrict freedom of speech, or anything else the government deems "morally inappropriate". No court orders or legislation required. No recourse. It WONT remove legitimately bad material. It WILL slow down the internet. It WILL cost a lot of money. It WILL ensure that pedophiles and the like use proxies or VPNs which will make it even harder for law enforcement to find them. It WILL inadvertently block legitimate sites. The government is going ahead with this trial purely to save face. There seems to be a pattern of this government "saving face" in a number of other issues as well. All at the expense of the taxpayer, and potential at the expense of our freedom and liberties.