J Wartha

It seems quite stubborn of the government to fail to listen to the experts and the people and continue to flout their ignorance. It's time to admit that they are not the experts - they were wrong and to move on. When it comes to this trial - 44 million seems a trivial sum but spend this money on websites that could be used to by children to report child abuse, pedophiles, child pornography, etc or websites that educate users on credit card fraud, scams, identity theft and to report it and spend this money on training law enforcement to use this information and hunt down criminals and perverts and Yes, it would make a real difference to someone's life NOT just money wasted on something that is doomed to fail. Why? Because anyone can register a domain name and set up a new website on a new domain within an hour or less and with every URL added to the blacklist, the internet will slow down even more. Sites can also be hosted on ip addresses, created on free web publishing services and social networking websites - are all these websites to be blocked too? Technology too evolves and ways to bypass filters are easily published on the internet and solutions to by pass the internet filtering easily found. Illegal sites will be sent underground, where private networks will be set up and users pay to view or download content. Is this what the government wants - is this the secret agenda - to actually create a whole new industry - while at the same time crippling the very tool that is key to the future prosperity of Australia. Why does the Labor government continue to invest in white elephant projects? Have we become so rich that we can waste money and not be held to account. The $750 million dollar pipeline that is supposed to secure Melbourne's water supply, could have no water to pump through it, should the drought continue and admission made by Labor Party itself. If it wasn't our future, our water, our internet, our businesses and our lives at stake - we'd all go to the pub and have a laugh about the stupidity of politicians. BUT this is serious, Australia is becoming a third world country - third world economy, third world internet, and third world water supplies. Then when Melbourne runs out of water - the government can blame the drought, when the internet is cripplied, the government can blame hackers and when there is no more money to throw around on useless projects, we can blame the world financial crisis. It's time to take responsibility and stop acting so childishly - listen to the experts and stop fighting them in the media because unlike other projects, if this one ever gets off the ground - it will cripple the internet to the point that the Labor government will have so much egg on their face, not even the media can make them look good.