russell

For Australia to reduce it's import expenses and reliance on computer software, a local industry based on creating and supporting Free Open-Source software should be established. It will save billions of dollars in senseless licence fees to inferior overseas software vendors, and the increase in programming expertise can be applied to all areas of science, industry, and products for the home, resulting in a snowballing effect of cutting software import costs and increasing employment. Internet filtering/censoring will dramatically increase internet costs and reduce internet performance. It also blocks valid content from lawful users, whilst the target users simply find easy ways around it such as with peer-to-peer networks. The vastly increased burden on ISPs will reduce competition in the market because smaller startups will be incapable of manning the high amount of manual person scanning content and administration that would be required.