Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt10

1) It won't work. Most CP is not distributed via www.

It will work enough to keep the majority of general constituents and pollies happy.

2) It won't stop predators on chatrooms, facebook, email etc. Just lull parents into a false sense of security.

Yup, but hey, just as long as things SEEM to be improving, we're back to my first reply.

3) Overblocking. At least 1% of websites accidentally blocked, even during the trial. How does that affect a small business who miight be incorrectly blocked?

The majority of the general public won't care or notice and inconvenienced site-owners will soon edit their pages and/or change their domain name (whatever) to get around the problem. The beauty of this ever changing and flexible thing called "IT".

4) The trial is supposed to test 10,000 websites as a blacklist. The ACMA list has approximately 1000 on it. How are they going to choose the other 9000?

I'm happy to offer some input to that regard. :)

5) Scope creep. Already "unwanted" material is being talked about with no way of knowing what that might entail, from this or any future government.

I can live with that too, especially if it means less adverts blazing out from every other web page.

6) Slowing things down

Soon won't notice as technology continues to speed things up. Not all of us are bothered with using the latest and greatest and fastest anyway. In fact, for most of the world's population the internut probably doesn't figure all that big their lives, and for the ones that it does I bet they wouldn't mind having it less in their lives – or at least their partners wish it so.

7) The probability of the list leaking.

Ya gotta break some eggs to make an omelette. Not sure why it should matter if the list leaks or not, so feel free to tell me why that would be bad so I can pick holes in that too. :) For example, let's say that little johnny got to read the leaked list and saw some r00d words or something in it or typed it into a browser to visit ... aren't The Filters still going to block it anyway ?

... and why would little johnny be interested in reading a leaked list anyway ?

8) The desire not to live in a government controlled censored world where at their leisure they can decide to flick something off.

Tis the world we live in when not virtually minded, so I see it as somewhat hypocritical to want (and support) Law and Order in our offline world and society and yet want virtual anarchy in the online world.

regarDS