Posted @ whirlpool - Conroy

If they can filter out web sites, this also means they can log web sites visits.

Your ISP, by way of providing you with what you request, already affectively logs your web site visits. On more than one occasion I've sat chatting with an ISP admin while on a nearby bench a screen was constantly scrolling every page request served to clients and obviously linked to their static or dynamic IP for there session, along with time/date information.

This sort of thing is part and parcel of providing the service, and it would provide very little overhead for ISPs to legally be required to provide a central agency of logs of the same along with the account holders of the IPs associated with the web page requests.

It could never prove on its own who was actually sitting behind the keyboard making the requests at the time, but could certainly be used to establish patterns.

I wonder which would be more effective in terms of controlling the flow of illegal material on the internet.

An ISP-level filter as currently is to be tried, or the universal knowledge that every web request made anywhere is being logged and then forwarded to The Government to be archived near forever (tis such compressable data after all) and to be processed in all sorts of ways ?

Once again (as per in the ISP-filter thread) it wouldn't change my internut life one iota.

Perhaps Senator Conroy would be better to consider the ISP logging and reporting approach rather than reactive filtering ?

It would certainly be a lot cheaper for the tax payers.

regarDS