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well i'll tell ya now, you can get R rated soft porn at servo's and i think they have it at Video Ezy still too. i know last time i was in QLD i couldnt buy a stick mag taht showed more than boob (three weeks without the GF will do that to ya).

just some background info, the the $128 million isnt all being spent on the filter. $49 mill of this is going to the Cyber-police squad so they can keep catching kiddy fiddlers. another large portion is going towards the education portion of cyber safety ie. school roadshows and the like. the 128million was the allocated budget to cyber safety as a whole. also The previous Government issued ACMA with a Direction in June 2007 to conduct closed environment testing of ISP level content filters.

The laboratory trial looked specifically at the effect of a range of filter products on network performance, effectiveness in identifying and blocking illegal and inappropriate content, scope to filter non-web traffic and adaptability to differing requirements of end-users.

The report found:

The median network degradation of the tested filters dropped indicating a significant improvement since the previous trial. The performance or ‘network degradation’ for one of the tested products was less than 2%, whilst three products were less than 30% and two products were in excess of 75%.
Successful blocking (the proportion of illegal and inappropriate content that should have been blocked that was successfully blocked) was between 88% and 97% with most achieving over 92%. The median rate of successful blocking was improved from the previous trial.
Overblocking (the proportion of content that was blocked that should not have been blocked) was between 1% and 6%, with most falling under 3%. The median overblocking rate was significantly improved from the previous trial.
All filter products tested were able to block traffic entirely across a wide range of non-web protocols such as instant messaging and peer-to-peer protocols. However, most filters are not presently able to identify illegal content and content that may be regarded as inappropriate that is carried via the majority of non-web protocols.
All filter products tested allow for the customisation of filtering levels for groups of users, for individual customers of an ISP and for individual users.

So it looks like it was coming anyways, no matter who was leading the country.
the government is also pulling some of this money from the former goverments failed 'free internet filter' download scheme that became available a few yrs back, as it only recieved a 20% pickup. So some of the funding will be from money that was already allocated towards internet safety.

Anyways. Just thought people would like to hear a few more facts before going off on 'civil liberties' rants against a particular goverment. I agree though that the inability to 'opt out' of such a scheme is a taking away our freedom rights.