Debate: Should Australia adopt a National Internet Filter?
Side: Australia SHOULDN'T...

"In Internet Filter is basically a system that it categorizing specific sites in order to act in accordance to how it has been programed to do so. It does not necessarily "censor" all sites that have been categorized within the filter, but makes decisions based upon how it has been programmed. If the government chose to provide clear, bold warnings for certain sites, rather than block them altogether, that would not be an act of "censoring," but rather a recommendation, hence, it recommends before it acts."Except, thats not what the national filter is for. You need to do more research before you give your presentation thingy. The filter is specifically being put in place to BLOCK all sites on the blacklist, not give warning pages for them. It doesn't categorize, the government puts into a list of all websites it doesn't want seen, this is called the blacklist. All sites on this list are blocked."We are putting our money into a system that actually saves a lot of time and effort when it comes to online law enforcement. Child safety is the big example here,"The federal police divison responsible for such materials have already come out and said that the internet censor will make it more difficult to do their jobs."Now, the other major point would be directed at dangerous online software that is instantly downloaded from certain sites online."What are you talking about, this has nothing to do with the internet filter. This isn't even what most internet filters do. This is an antivirus program, something every single competent internet user already has. Something that is also far more effective on the end-machine rather than the isp. If you think we can install some magic filter that will remove virus's from the internet, you don't understand how the technology works.Forgetting for a moment, that virus's arn't even looked at by filter software, ignoring for a moment that it's got nothing to do with the censor policy:"and give strong warnings to those sites that may contain harmful software."When clicking through to a site that is known to contain virus's from google, it already gives you a warning box to inform you of that."Now, the other major point would be directed at dangerous online software that is instantly downloaded from certain sites online. We can never know 100% if a site contains harmful software or not"If you can never know if a site is going to contain harmful software than how can you produce a blacklist of those sites to block?" mistakes by the government will not go without a voice of opinion from the Nation."The blacklist is completely and entirely kept secret. 0 accountability.""Validates the censorship being utilized by countries such as Iran and China"Validates? I would think not. Australia is a Democracy, countries such as Iran and China are not."And we're putting in censorship technologies being used by countries such as Iran and china. Validating their use in those countries."Voting is what gives Australians the right to have their say, "No-one voted for this censorship policy. It was introduced at the last minute of the last hour before the election. Most people don't even know such a policy exists.