There are two fundamental issues I have:
1. the assumption that is it technically possible to guarantee that all child pornography will be blocked by an ISP level filter. I suggest it is not possible - it will simply be routed around and hence the filter becomes useless.
2. the government using the banner of child pornography to insert a completely opaque (ie not accountable to the public) censorship system with no checks-and-balances and no right of appeal. This is not how to run a democracy - this is totalitarianism.
Nobody wants child pornography - but the process for tackling this needs to be clearly separated from political meddling.
I'm all for them trying to implement a filter which only attempts to block child pornography (even though I think it is a waste of time and money from a technical point of view). This is NOT what the Australian government is aiming to implement - their plans go a long way beyond this and so I am totally against it.
Well said.