Aussie web censorship will trigger sex shop resurgence

If the government does go ahead with internet filtering , i for one will close my internet account. The australian braudband network is already congested enough now without making it even worse , we have a nickname for braudband here , it's called Fraudband , afterall we can't even get a decent unlimited plan here at a decent speed without paying through the nose for it , whereas you can get unlimited 20mbit overseas for less than we pay here for a 20 gigabyte capped account.

How could it possibly reduce bandwidth/throughput for the ISPs to reduce the number of Internet feeds; for example to eliminate pornography for those homes signing up for that service.
While I would not expect the average consumer to receive a large increase in throughput for the remaining Internet feeds, reducing the amount of information being retrieved by customers would no doubt give at least a slight increase.

Funny place, Australia – you can visit a legal brothel, but don't bring your camera.

This internet filtering is not about protecting children and family values and we all know it....its about filtering information available to the public and thus enforcing control.

P.S.

Will I be water-boarded for saying this?

"While I would not expect the average consumer to receive a large increase in throughput for the remaining Internet feeds, reducing the amount of information being retrieved by customers would no doubt give at least a slight increase."

Its flawed thinking like this that the AU government relies on to bolster its position. It will cetainly reduce the amount of information, but only because it will slow the internet by up to 87% in some cases.

Here is link to the independant report compiled for the government, their own report in fact.

http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib310554/isp-level_internet_content_filtering_trial-report.pdf

You will see that the best filter trialled slowed the speed the most, and overblocked the most. The filter that performed best (ie: slowed it least) underblocked the most (ie: let most prohibited content through), so not much point really.

If every packet you send and receive by HTTP is being stopped and inspected by a filter server, and all the 100,000 customers on your ISP are also being fed through the same server do you think it might slow down a little bit?

Keep in mind this is not a simple DNS poisoning attack used voluntarily by the UK ISP's to apply the CP blacklist, that's a simple no-brainer technique, this is a contextual inspection that will filter according to keywords and image content, so EVERY single word and image must be examined as it passes through, good luck with that.

Ah yes and more AU Government propaganda here.

"that will let families sign up to block an additional blacklist of websites."

It is NOT a sign up (or OPT IN) filter, it is an OPT OUT filter, so every single person in AU who OPTS OUT will have their name recorded somewhere for the AU police to examine and search, a list of potential sex predators I have no doubt it will be considered.

And to top it off, anyone who dares protest is immediately called a Child Porn supporter by one of Conroy's trained dogs like Bernadette McMenamin.

http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/mcmenamin-on-protesters/

A short quote here;

"It looks pathetic and shameful because most of these people are not fully aware of the facts and secondly, those who are aware are, in effect, advocating child pornography."

I suggest assisting instead of blindly throwing manufactured propaganda around, you do realise the UK will be using this model as an example for introducing its own deep packet inspection filter.

Oh yes, did I mention that it has been suggested that the filters will also DECRYPT encrypted data to stop people having a quick gander at virtual naked body that way also? So much for your online bank security, a classic MIM attack anyone?

Won't happen as I'm sure Sex Shops will be banned too. On another note, and I'm in no way supporting pedophiles but if they can't get their kicks off the web, where are they gonna go? The nearest school ground perhaps or the park. Is that realy protecting children, encouraging more scum out of their homes onto the streets.

I was originally wholly against any filtering by the government.
But then i read on.

If it works how they say it work. and there is only about a 5% loss in speed, I would accept it for the chance to stamp out the trade in child pornography.

I would NOT want them to filter P2P, or anything else like that AT all.

But if they're just filtering 1300 IP addresses KNOWN for dealing in illegal pornography. i don't see why anyone would have issues in accessing their normal porn etc. like they wouldn't already monitor everyone who visits these sites.

Yes, it is a slippery slope. But as long as the line is drawn at child pornography and other such despicable behavior, why should anyone mind?

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