Student

I feel that protesting the proposed filter is directly related to our digital economy. The filter will either have low speed impact and high chance of false-positives and negatives, or will have high accuracry with huge speed impacts. For the improvement of our digital economy, to nurture small business, and internationally accessible sites and services, Australia must be able to provide fast web access. As the filter will not achieve its' goals without risking over 80% of our speed, many aspects of our growing digital economy will flounder and sink. We must be able to offer competetive services, and we simply will not be able to. Customers and business will move to countries that offer faster web connections, and those that are not choked by filters such as ours. This is only one of my many concerns about the proposed filtering. I feel that before we attempt to address accessability of broadband, infrastructure, or our digital economy, we need to ensure that we are not supporting counterproductive measures and ignoring the ways that the current planned filters will render slightly faster connections and business infrastructure potentially moot. Not to mention that there IS a developed home computer-based firewall/filter available for free to all Australians that is more efficient, effective, and given, say, a letterbox install CD drop to every home, be a much cheaper way of delivering safe and clean internet solutions to Australian families without jeapordising other aspects of IT development, broadband improvements, and our hopeful "digital economy".