ONE EYE DEER

The Australian Government has announced it's going to go ahead with what it calls the "cleanfeed".

Essentially its ISP level filtering/censorship of the Internet.

Their motivation is protecting children from the evils of the Internet. A noble cause, no doubt, but the argument is that

Electronic Frontiers Australia has some excellent information on their no cleanfeed site:

What do we know so far?

• Filtering will be mandatory in all homes and schools across the country.
• The clean feed will censor material that is "harmful and inappropriate" for children.
• The filter will require a massive expansion of the ACMA's blacklist of prohibited content.
• The Government wants to use dynamic filters of questionable accuracy that slow the internet down by an average of 30%.
• The filtering will target legal as well as illegal material.
• $44m has been budgeted for the implementation of this scheme so far.
• The clean-feed for children will be opt-out, but a second filter will be mandatory for all Internet users.
• A live pilot deployment is going ahead in the near future.

So, if the cleanfeed is no good, what's a better alternative?