Concerned Christian

Thankyou for allowing me to comment. It is of great concern the environment is, and computing technology coupled with the internet has great potential to save on emissions. The savings don't end there, the traffic congestion, road building programs and similar also will benefit from telecommuting. BUT THEN YOU WANT TO INTRODUCE A CENSORSHIP FILTERING SYSTEM. What is the energy costs of all these filters being installed going to cost. Each filter handles less than 1Gbit/s and there are many TerraBits/s in Australia, so we are looking at a conservative figure of 10,000+ filter machines being installed with the associated infrastructure machines. That is massive increase in energy use and emissions. Then the censorship filter, even if use the best one for overblocking will still see >1% of legitimate sites being blocked. When considering what effect this will have on businesses planning on introducing telecommunication infrastructure, one will see a lack of confidence in doing such. The censorship filter will block legitimate business due to overblocking and no business will allow critical operations (eg conferences, typical working) to be done over the internet. In conclusion not only will the censorship filter increase dramatically the emissions by ISPs, but also dramatically stop the planned reductions in emissions by businesses, road infrastructure, transport requirements because of the lack of uptake of telecommuting by businesses. Did anyone in Senator Conroy's department even look at the effects of the censorship filter will have on society as a whole and not just emissions.