Piers Ackerman vs. ISP filtering

Even Piers Ackerman thinks the Government's proposed ISP filtering is a bad idea! Possibly the first time I've ever been on the same side of a debate as Ackerman, makes me feel a little nauseous. Granted, this is really just another avenue of Rudd/Labor bashing for him, but it shows that there are people on both sides of the political divide who oppose internet censorship.

Ackerman's main points of concern are that the filtering would likely hobble the broadband scheme (in terms of speed) and is against the interests of business and our US allies - recurring issues in much of the discourse surrounding this debate. He also mentions some costs, which I haven't seen come up much so far - $43 billion for the broadband network, and $125.8 for the filtering scheme.

He also mentions an app called the Onion Router that allows anonymous access to web content, which I will look into and explore in an upcoming post. Happy Friday...