Say no to internet censorship in Australia! Read here for more information from Electronic Frontiers Australia!
I believe that internet censorship should not be allowed because of two primary reasons:
Firstly, I consider this to be an invasion of civil liberties. Whilst I no way condone the use of the internet for criminal or illegal activities, I believe that the law must be enforced without the hinderance of our civil liberties, specifically including the freedom to access information.
Secondly, I believe that a filter to the internet would be a great negative for the performance of data communications in the country. The infrastructure required to filter a nations content would be extremely expensive, and would slow down the rate of data transfers whilst performing filtering activities. This would ultimately lead to decreased performance of the internet, and increased cost of internet services for consumers.
Additionally, I do not believe that an internet filter would be very effective. It is already very easy to establish a secure encrypted communications channel over the internet between two computers. Banks have this security. The same encryption technologies can also be used to set up secure encrypted gateways between machines. This is virtually impossible to filter.
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