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The incumbent labor government in power federally here in Australia have long been proposing a mandatory filter. This was supposedly to deal with child pornography and other such extreme sites. The filter was across the board, meaning you could not opt out and would have slowed browsing at the ISP customer end.
The huge outcry here in Australia including accusations from Senator Conroy - Minister for Communications and Broadband, that opponents of the filter were pedophiles.His stupid gafe about wanting to stop "scams coming through the portal" showed the Australian public just how detached he actually was.
The debate has gone quiet and I assume that it probably been quietly shelved as it would be extremely easy to circumvent using an easy to install and use VPN service, a major flaw that that makes any global filter a waste of time.
Blocking a website at ISP level is done frequently here by ISP's themselves, but it does NOT stop those determined to get to that site in any way.
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