Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt11

I think there has been a little to much spooky mulder going on here recently.

Lets stick to the point:

Agreed and good idea, HM.

1, It will not protect kids from online nasties

Correct, it will not protect all the kids all the time from all online nasties. It will only protect some of the kids some of the time from some of the online nasties – which But Of Course is considerably better than what is currently the case.

2, It will not stop kids from being abused.

Correct ... but what has that to do with ILCF as proposed ? Sounds like an attempt at selling straw ...

3, Clean Feed be will abused by conservite and religious groups

The far more correct thing would be to say that it will be abused by any who are given the opportunity to abuse it. Every Special Interest Group under the sun will attempt to utilise such a facility to their own ends given the opportunity, including those who oppose the conservatism I personally side with and see as more beneficial to the well being and progress of humanity than the opposite. Normal Government Accountability will apply with this as it does with everything else. The Government is by the people for the people after all ...

4, Clean feed will not prevent access to blacklisted site by tech savey internet users

Correct, it will not immediately achieve this. Tweaking will be in order, but for most web users, it will do its required/necessary job.

5, Clean feed will block legitimate sites unfairly

Correct. Healthy flesh also suffers when the knife is applied against harmful cancer. Nothing new there and nothing that tweaking wouldn't improve upon.

6, There will be no transparency on the content of the black lists

I'm not convinced on the accuracy of that one, particularly seeing as any so called "black list" is hardly going to remain secret for very long.

7, Security could be at risk if you use Internet banking, online shopping

I call "incorrect" on that one, and also more a case of "cart before the horse" at this stage of the game. That kind of scare-mongering isn't going to serve the "anti ILCF" proponents as it will be quite easily shot down.

9, Freedom of information and speech which is not protected here to start with will be further at risk

Uh, now I reckon we are getting back to Spooky Mulder Town, HM ... still, plenty of "correct"s from me prior to that.

regarDS