Typing Google Into Google Wont Break The Internet But Senator Conroy Sure Will

Seems the rules of the "Clean Feed" game changed this week when it was revealed although people can opt out of the planned mandatory filtered "child friendly" Internet. Everyone will still be subject subject to a filtered Internet, which is a very scary prospect indeed the details seem scarce and as proved true this week no one seems to be forthcoming with the truth on this filter and its application.

So lets look at what we do know so far about this filter:

The Government like everything else tells us its important to "protect the children" and stop the flow of kiddie porn. Tim Marshall, the media contact for Senator Conroy stated in an interview on the topic that is "reasonably emotive issue, and you know there's a few lobby groups in the sector who are pretty keen to put there extreme view out there without perhaps having too much interest in the facts."
It will cost lots, how much? Who knows everytime someone quotes a price it is different, rest assured though it will be a fair bit over 100 million.
The Trials in Tasmania shown accuracy is a hard nut to crack with all filters tested allowing between 2 - 13% of material through that should have been blocked whilst wrongly stopping access to 1.3 - 7.8% of sites tested.
It will slow down access to the Internet. In their Tasmanian trials only one of the filters had an acceptable level of performance loss (2%) as opposed to between a 21 and 86% slow down from the other filters. Tests showed the most accurate filters to cause the biggest drops in performance.
The filter will most likely be easy to bypass, making it useless for those that are determined to get unfiltered Internet.
The Government already spent 89 million providing free Internet filtering software for anyone worried about what content is available on computers in their household. Why should the rest of the country suffer because parents can not keep an eye on their children whilst using the Internet? Why is the "clean feed" and opt out system and not an opt in system after all children make up only 1/5 of the population.
The Government is remaining very tight lipped about what this other "inappropriate" content is they will be blocking, so we can assume it consists of anything they don't like with minimal processes in place to appeal.

Australia is already laughed at due to the Government's refusal to create a new rating for video games that are deemed to be above the MA15+ rating, do you really trust that they can do a better job with the Internet?

Links

Won't someone think of the adults?

No Clean Feed

FaceBook Group - No To Australian Internet Censorship

FaceBook Group - Australian ISP Filtering Plan Is Stupid

FaceBook Group - Australians Against The National Filter Plan

Wikipedia - Internet Censorship In Australia

Netalert - Be Alarmed, Not Alert

Electronic Frontiers Australia

TIG Petition - Stop Internet Censorship In Oz

Somebody Think Of The Children

BroadBanned Revolution