Wizard

Are you also going to ban/block all the social networking sites (my space, facebook, etc), IM's and chat rooms. If you even bothered to read the news and listen to the police, children are targeted through their social networking, IM and chat sites, that's apparently where contact is made and stuff, NOT through some obscure illegal site on the web. So how is banning a few porn and other sites critical of government activity going to protect children? The very sites the children are exposed to are still freely accessible to anyone. So please explain how they will be protected? To all the supporters of this, how will you feel about it when you go on-line to check whats showing at the movies and find the site blocked because something in the name of the cinema, or a movie, or a movie description leads it to being blocked by the filter? and if the page does load it take 10 minutes instead of 10 seconds to load, and your kids are in their chat room talking to some pervert (because the chat room isn't blocked) will you still agree with the filter and say it's working and a good idea? What every happen to accepting responsibility for one own actions? Why don't parents accept the responsibility of monitoring and raising their kids? Put your own filters up at home and monitor what what they do. I can see the defense lawyers lined up now. "Your Honour, my client isn't guilty of downloading child pornography, every website the images came from was allowed through by the governments filter, therefore your honour, the images must all be legal, as any illegal content has been blocked.". This whole thing is a joke. Didn't we all complain when China censored the internet for the international media and block access to sites about Tibet, etc? and now we are going to be doing the same thing. I would have expected this under the former Howard government as Howard led us down the slippery slope towards communism. Also, supporting a free/unrestricted internet doesn't mean supporting illegal content or activities. The police appear to be doing a good job tracking down the perverts at the moment, in a large part I feel because of the relatively free web access, I wonder how much harder their job will become when all the perverts go deeper underground and find a way around the filter without anybody watching and monitoring them? I believe the filter will actually make it harder to track the perverts and protect our kids.