AndrewH

I certainly applaud the minister for the blogging initiative and believe that it is a valuable tool in communicating with the public. As for the filtering - I believed that the minister's intentions were essentially good despite the flaws in the proposed implementation, however I have been severely disillusioned by this blog post and the previous one. It is very very difficult to retain any faith in the ministers intentions when he announces the expansion of the filter to include peer-to-peer traffic and then closes the blog for commenting within such a short time. This is the third major expansion of these filtering plans: the first was changing from optional to mandatory. Next was expanding the list from the 1300 internationally blacklisted sites to 10,000 government-decided URL's. And now it has been expanded yet again to peer to peer traffic (which I will not bother to point out the futility of). I can only assume that the next step is mandatory spyware on every Australian's computer. After all, this is the only effective way to ensure we are not looking at things on the internet that the government doesn't want us to see isn't it. Very poor show minister.