All speach that is deemed as discrimatory or likely to inflame intollerance against minorities, for example, is strictly speaking illegal depending on your jurisdiction (and there is a very wide definition to these terms), more confusingly is the status of media that has not received a censorship classification in Australia (which means most streaming media) is, in effect, illegal as it has no censorship classification – even if it is otherwise harmless and would be G rated, a further complication is that differing Australian jurisdictions allow differingly censored material.

Certainly, for those wealthy enough to have servers or connections hosted overseas, it is a simple matter to use their off-shore site as a proxy with a tunnel to the proxy (at the cost of some 20-30% of their bandwidth and 2 connection fees), and for others there is the less secure public VPN proxies, but the new fliters intercept HTTPS – raising the concern about the privacy of banking transactions – so that is insufficient in its own right. The simple reality is that for the committed user interested in the type of material with broadbased acceptance of rejection, there are many ways around the filters including a host of peer-to-peer technologies, but for the casual user (read 98% of the population) the filters will be effective.

No – if you oppose this move you must focus on the principles at stake and not on the technology weakness. The issue must be about what the technology is intended to achieve, are those targets acceptable to our society’s values (including our assumption of freedoms of speach and association), and how can it be constrained to only achieve those outcomes and whether the collateral, attendant price to an agreed set of liberties is acceptable?

Further, one must focus on soliciting the support of the unaligned and opposition parties – or no amount of argument will be effective.

However, the fact is, that ISP based filtering is SO easy to circumvent.

I strongly believe that even spending the amount of money the current and former government has spent on this so far is a CRIME against the people of Australia.

If not someone within the government, then surely someone outisde the government has explained the simple reality that an internet filter ISP side is trivial to circumvent. The goverment continues to hide from this reality (ignore the facts) and waste our money persuing this.

Anyone else would be locked up for stealing 10s of millions of our money. We must call these people to task over such gross negligence.

I would hardly call it encouragement.

I like to let everyone have their say.

I would like to know as much information as you would, and as I have said to others regarding the interview, drawing blood from a stone is quite hard with Mr Marshall, so you gotta’ talk their not so competent language.

Let the Government “meander”, who cares, it only makes them look more douchier’.

Regards,
Ben Grubb