OPPOSE CENSORSHIP. What did the internet ever do to you! This is going to make it harder to catch criminals if you make websites unavailable with some retarded firewall. It will force it underground and electronic tracking will not be as simple.

Just who is the government trying to shield from investigative attention! Paedophiles?!?

This is an outrage!

They will be harder to catch if the material is underground and physical rather than electronic!

BAD GOVERNMENT! WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO HELP?

SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/19/1237054961100.html

It's definitely one of the word policies ever to come out of the Labor party. I sincerely hope any plan to filter the internet fall flat on its face. Not only is it ethically wrong IMO for the government to control something like this so stringently, but there's also practically issues like the potential decrease in speed of the Internet with a filter this size in place. We already have pretty slow Internet here in Australia. Also, it just wont work perfectly. Sites that should be blocked will get through and sites that shouldn't be blocked wont. It'll just be horrible. It will be 1984. I'm hoping this wakes people up to just how much the government wants to impede on our privacy. Hopefully this will generate a lot of concern over what else and how else the government may be monitoring us and, due to public demand, the government's ability to impede on our privacy is itself impeded and we see massive right to privacy law reform in this country.

I heard that one of the sites they have banned is wikileaks. Now how is that protecting the youngsters from k133y pr0n?