just because the majority of child pornography trading occurs elsewhere does not supply a sufficient reason for not being rid of the minority that occurs on the internet.
"Most domestic abuse goes unnoticed, so we should stop prosecuting domestic abuse all together!"
Classic misconception. It will not decrease availability of C.P in Australia.
If it filters at least one child pornography website, it will have decreased the amount of child pornography available in Australia. That's pure and rather obvious logic.
The studies indicate this flter will not work, and is a threat to our online freedom.
The studies indicate that some filters are a bit coarse and should hence not be adopted, The same studies found some of the filters worked and didn't have much of an impact on speed. The threat to online freedom is a slippery slope fallacy.
This is what the ISPs are supporting, what Google is behind and what the Obama administration has expressed concern about.
Appeal to [false] authority. With the exception of the Obama Administration, the other ones have a vested financial interest in not seeing the filter go ahead. As for the Obama Administration, I believe it was only the US Ambassador who came out in defense of your position, and one can hardly count him in the "Obama Administration"
Don't try to make your position seem better than it actually is please.
When did I say it needs to filter them all?
"it is physically impossible to accurately count them. You cannot therefore filter them all."
It needs to sort through what doesn't and what does have C.P, which at this time cannot be effectively done without comprising our internet speeds and having a shit error rate.
It just matches it to the blacklist which is compiled by public suggestion and government research. Nothing too complex.
Please explain.
It serves the argument that money should be handed to the AFP so that they can directly tackle the problem rather than masking it through an ineffective and easily bypassing internet filter.
No. It serves the argument that if there is something illegal available for viewing on the internet, it should be shut down. Be it peer-to-peer, chat rooms, virtual private networks and so on.
