"... The government will iron-out policy and implementation of the Internet content filtering software following an upcoming trial of the technology, according

"... The government will iron-out policy and implementation of the Internet content filtering software following an upcoming trial of the technology, according to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy ..." In September on "Software Freedom Day" which I attended, I happened to catch the tail-end of a talk by Colin Jacobs ~ http://www.efa.org.au/about/board/colin-jacobs/ http://www.efa.org.au/about/board/colin-jacobs/ and Dale Clapperton of "Electronic Frontier Australia" discussing the "Clean feed" testing mentioned in the article ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/2871574175/in/set-72157607387630079/ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/2871574175/in/set-72157607... The description of the filtering tests was along the lines of - "500 odd test sites, on an internal network (effectively at Ethernet speed)" didn't inspire confidence in the testing of the proposed approach. Access speed will be a real issue. I'm not sure this implementation will be workable. You can read a description of the blocking in the report, "Mandatory ISP Internet Blocking Plan" here ~ http://www.efa.org.au/censorship/mandatory-isp-blocking/ http://www.efa.org.au/censorship/mandatory-isp-blocking/