After the Australian Government revealed that they would increases our Internet speeds with a National Broadband Network worth over 4.7 billion dollars, they have now revealed results of tests they have done in Tasmania regarding Internet filtering to block Child Porn from Australian Internet users.

The issue that many people have foreseen with such a system being put into place, including Brent and I, is that it would slow down our Internet speeds, as all Internet traffic would have to pass through a piece of filtering hardware or software, of which in turn would slow down traffic between you and your Internet Service Provider.

“Preliminary results from the ACMA study showed that five of the six filters tested degraded Internet throughput speeds by between 22 percent and 75 percent, or more.

Just introducing a filter to the test network — without actively filtering any content — resulted in up to 10 percent degradation.”

- Source: iTnews

Although such a filter would remove the risk of illegal child pornography being viewed within Australia, as you can see, it would also slow down out Internet connections, of which I’m sure doesn’t seem like something users of whom are doing the ‘right thing’ by not viewing such material, should have to deal with.

Is the Government going backwards yet again?

- Ben