zzap has posted a very in-depth article on why the proposed internet censorship sucks. I agree with zzaps post completely and here are my issues and thoughts with the internet filtering.
ISPs should provide filtering by law to all customers, however, it should be a opt in case not opt out. Filtering customers, destroys privacy, impacts on security and speed and doesn’t work
Filtering cannot stop porn sites from being accessed, and filtering can also trigger false positives.
Filtering provides another place for man in the middle attacks, allowing hackers to gain access to where you go, passwords and usernames by sniffing.
Filtering doesn’t work under encrypted connections making is even more useless.
Filtering all of Australia’s internet, which is already horribly slow, will make it even more slower. This is no way to create a “world class broadband network”.
I love my ISP at the moment, because I know that my data gets from one place to another without being Fold, Bended, Mutilated or Spindled. Packets get from one place to another without going through http proxies or the like.
I can see this ISP level filtering masking my IP and most likely will cause problems with shared sites, that block by IP.
I would like to apologise for this shittyness of this post. It’s taken me 30 minutes to write this, and I can’t seem to stay focused.
This also goes against the idea’s of the Internet. It wasn’t designed to be destroyed like this.
Good post. You make some good points. But you honestly think ISPs should be required by law to have filtering for those who want it? I don’t think the ISP should legally be forced to restrict content to any of its customers.
I think it would help parents prevent children from finding dangerous material, although it’s not the answer it can really help in those situtations.