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by graemep 6213 days ago
So how long till the rest of the world adopts the same approach. Australia is having problems with proposed filtering because of performance concerns, so this would be a solution from their point of view as well.
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I hope you're right. Requiring censoring software to be installed on people's PC's may get people's attention. Currently awareness here is very low. The performance issues have been getting a big portion of the attention, if is to be had. This has been ammunition for the opposition to the plan on with hand but a mask on the issue with the other.

The ISPs and other opposition press the performance issues because it's easy & doesn't require value judgements. But we should be talking about (I hate to sound like an American Libertarian) the liberty issues.