tric

ok my first comment wasn't loaded...was this because i used a hotmail address?? trying again with a gmail address. my points were this...1/the filter will not stop child pornography. the creators of child porn do not use the web for the most part for the proliferation of their porn 2/the filter will not protect children from pornography, unless all porn is to be filtered, which will simply make pornographers work around the filter 3/the filter will not protect children from paedophiles, as it will not be blocking chat rooms or emails or social webpages 4/the filter will not stop electronic crime, as criminals will work around it if they effected by it at all. phishing scams are effective only because people are ignorant of the risks, likewise identity theft will not be hindered by the filter 5/the filter will not effect piracy as it will not be blocking p2p networks. even if p2p web pages are blocked initially, the fact that the people who set up these pages are coders will mean they will quickly work around the filter 6/the responsibility of protecting children from unwanted web information is the duty of parents and the education system in the same way as 'stranger danger' is 7/ what's next? protecting children from the soft porn of music videos by censoring visual media? 8/ perhaps we should censor print media for perpetuating body image problems in children with their thin youth worshiping photoshoped images that bombard us on a daily basis along with the advertising industry that is well aware that 'sex sells' 9/ the filter will slow internet speeds which is not why people voted for labours promise of a national broadband network 10/the slowing of the internet (and australia is already behind the rest of the electronic world in terms of access and speed) will HARM e-trade and our economy 11/ the filter will hinder police activity in the apprehension of child sex offenders 12/the filter will hinder research and protection agencies who's goal is the safegaurding of children at risk 13/the pro filter arguments all seem to be focussed on protecting the children from child pornography. the filter will simply NOT do this! and now i will wait and see if this comment is loaded...while wondering how many other peoples comments were 'unwanted'