Alan-Sydney

Changing the subject, even dressing it up in brain-dead bureaucratic bumf like 'how Australia's regulatory framework can enable the digital economy' will not make the opposition to ISP filtering go away. The filter will hamstring the digital economy. It already bids fair to make us the laughingstock of the digital world. The ISP filter will not work because it can only effect HTTP traffic and illegal material is not principally trafficked by HTTP. The filter will not work because the government's plan makes no provision for transparent review and correction of the blacklist, The filter will not work because it transfers decision-making from individuals and families to a bureaucracy that plainly does not understand the technology. The filter will work to slow our already creaky digital infrastructure to a crawl. Perhaps you could adopt a more effective policy like requiring every Internet user to have a guy with a red flag walk in front of them when they travel the information superhighway.