Contended from Coogee

It seems that filtering has been extended to the Digital Economy Future Directions Consultation Paper. This paper excludes comments on filtering as the Minister presumably takes the view that there is a future with filtering. Given that low access network throughput (contention) combined with access network line rates mean that Australia is already uncompetitive, why bother consulting on the future of a digital economy which will be so adversely affected by the filtering proposed by a Minister who only seems to understand Senator Fielding and not the technology.

I understand that NBN might be off the table for the review, but given that the Minister seems from his speech on "shared network" this week not to understand contention, perhaps the future of the digital economy is so dire that any comments on the paper are not worth while.