I Like The Internet Being Free

To me, the Internet has been the last bastion of completely free speech. While you can still be rightfully challenged with court proceedings if you infringe on national law, we users of the Internet are pretty much free to do whatever we like - upload whatever content we desire and view whatever material we want, so long as it isn't breaking our laws. And we're free to do it without censorship of any kind. I want that to stay, but I always figured it would be a matter of time before people more conservative than me ruined the Internet.

If this filter goes through, they've ruined the Internet for me, because they'll have opened Pandora's box.

Why? To save us from kiddy porn and other things that are bad. The filter won't stop it, though. It'll make it harder for bad people to get bad things, but they'll still get them. The same law that makes bad things illegal will still be there, just as enforceable as before, but every other person in the country will suffer. Great. Well done Government, you've ignored the lessons of the past. Hooray.

Strengthen the agencies that enforce the existing laws that outlaw things like child-porn etc. and make sure they investigate ISPs for misconduct. Don't make the consumers and general public suffer. The whole "it's for family friendliness" argument scares me, because so much awfulness has been committed in the name of some notion of an ethereal 'greater good' that is so subjective from person to person it could never be called a democratic approach.