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  • … False positives. Annette said she’d experienced great frustration at e-mail spam filters sending non-spam e-mails into the spam folder. She understands first hand that false positives can be a real problem. Slower internet speeds. Annette said she’s been involved in traveling to remote communities …

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  • … of Nazi content. Google removes webpages from its index that violate a certain country’s laws — which includes intellectual property laws. Internet censorship is certainly a broad topic. I understand that these are all issues of concern, and I understand that steps need to be taken in certain cases …

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  • … They only want the Australian people to view “G” rated content in the internet. Teenagers are mature enough to view porn. Any filter is bypass-able - no filter is perfect. Will not filter P2P programs such as Bittorrent; where most of the illegal content is shared. Do not do web petitions - a waste …

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  • Over the last few years, Australian lawmakers have been enamored with the idea of Internet filters, spending almost a hundred million on filtering technology that a teenager was able to circumnavigate in just a few minutes. When Internet filters were voluntary and made available for download …

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  • … by the filter, further impacting Australian internet users and potentially businesses. A briefing by Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) also demonstrates how impractical classification of content would be given the inclusion of R18+ material that is hosted offshore in the filter plans, requiring …

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  • Over the last few years, Australian lawmakers have been enamored with the idea of Internet filters, spending almost a hundred million on filtering technology that a teenager was able to circumnavigate in just a few minutes. When Internet filters were voluntary and made available for download …

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  • … They are blocking sites with “illegal” content and also “unwanted” content. What is this unwanted content they are talking about? No-one knows. They wont tell anyone. Tests show that filters block legal sites and well as illegal ones, and also that illegal ones can slip through. I was happy when Kevin Rudd …

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  • … are. –The government wants to “filter out” content that is already illegal in Australia by forcing internet service providers to censor content which you can access from your computer. The original legislation would have filtered content for households and schools. The next version of it applied to all internet …

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  • With Australian Internet users up in arms about the prospect of mandatory Internet filtering by the government, we thought this would be a timely subject. The purpose of this article is to show what Internet filtering is, and also why it isn’t the best solution to the problem of illegal content …

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  • … inappropriate for children, such as pornography. Internet providers and the Government’s own lab tests have found that presently available filters are not capable of adequately distinguishing between legal and illegal content and can degrade internet speeds by up to 86 per cent. Many ISPs already offer …