I live in the free world.
There’s a strange thing in the world of politics, it’s called the election promise. They can be filled once in a while but normally they die a quick death out of sight and art heard from again. But disturbingly one of the ones that hasn’t disappeared is the proposal that was made during the last election that Internet filtering system for the whole of Australia be created and implemented to allow a so-called clean feed eliminating child porn at other illegal material
Now don’t get me wrong I do believe that a lot of this material does need to go part I’m siding with the critics of this system in that it won’t work reading an article today it stated that only around about 87 to 95% of all material gets blocked that is undesirable and there is the potential for a huge amount of legitimate material to be blocked. What also concerns me is the ability for the filter to be manipulated in certain politically sensitive material could easily through unscrupulous means make it into the filter allowing Australia to join such a bright nation and North Korea and China in filtering anything that they don’t like.
Now the other problem with this system is the it only turn filter webpages and on the whole webpages those days are only a tiny fraction of the traffic on the Internet. The majority is other forms which can include peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic and other forms of traffic which means instead of getting an effective system we are instead getting a political be satisfactory solution which doesn’t and should offer a solution at all just a stop gap that the politician can point to have so they did something when really they did very little.
Now the other problem with this system is 13 even if you opt out of the feed your Internet speed is still likely to be degraded which use a problem. In comparison to most of the rest of the developed world, Australia has a substandard Internet system. Our speeds are a slower and is filter is only can make them slower still which has the potential to her not only the home user but also business users in today’s multi media environment. For get your bandwidth intensive applications like streaming video as they are just as likely to be degraded to the point of not being usable thanks to the filter and will just make just a laughing stock in comparison to the rest of the world.
So no thank you I don’t live in China and North Korea or Burma. Take your Internet filtering and instead think of something that actually works and I’m all for parents actually taking responsibility to their children rather than blaming the Internet for their poor parenting supervision. There are commercially available mantle filters that will do the same standard of job that is being proposed now that Australia and the same ways that should beat those home filters is the same ways that you will beat the great firewall of Australia.
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