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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

Will these proxies and tunnels also bypass an '18 (or 78!) per cent reduction in relative performance'?

Yes.

There is no conclusive proof that this sort performance reduction will occur, as there has been no generative data for long term studies done over filtering.

Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

Child Protective Services.

Child protective services can only provide support on reported incidents and mandatroy reporting in not the case in day to day life, particularly in social groups that are closed off fiscally.

Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

You're advocating blanket mandatory all-pervasive censorship with access monitored by a single central authority and you're lecturing other people about rational thought?!
And speaking of right wing ideologies, would that be the right wing ideologies of Family First and the Pentecostal Church that are being appeased by this?

I am not advocating all pervasive censorship or monitoring, I donot even know where you got that idea from, I am however saying that there are people in our society that need some protections, if you don't believe that then perhaps you need to open your eyes when you walk the streets, or if you are a silver spoon child go and stroll through the lower socio economic area in this country. I also assume you have never worked in an area or discipline where particularly children are at high risk.

Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

Ah, just like Senator Conroy equating defence of freespeech with advocacy of child pornography. However, the ISPs do offer services and parents can buy blocking software and not put the computer in the childs bedroom. Now we're back to that grey area occupied by that mysterious concept some call responsibilities...

If you are advocating a world of zero censorship then you have to allow something like child pornography to be included under the guise of free speech, otherwise you are already broaching an issue of censorship, we can break this argument down further if you like. Afterall it is an adult argument we are having.

Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

As for environment well I was just being sarcastic, takes more than a few days in office before you can say a government has 'done some great things' on any given topic. But if you want to be serious then a good example would be the pretence of signing Kyoto - while still maintaining the same old footdragging.