Ted

Just take a look at the UK's trials and you can see what a dismal failure the net-filter is.

Any Federal or State police investigator will tell you that child pornography is shared via peer to peer file sharing, emails and via the post, not through websites per se.

These filters will end up blocking many legitimate sites as well as considerably slowing down bandwidth, and speeds are already dismally slow in Australia.

Why should the entire country have to pay for the misdemeanors of a depraved few? Why can't the government allow the average person to make their own decisions rather than have have these decisions made for them by the government.

We don't need some Chinese style firewall.