Australia is planning to introduce compulsory blocking programs to ISP's to provide a "clean feed" to Australian homes. However, the list of blocked websites is blacklisted. My question is it legal for the government to do this. Wouldn't it blocking freedom of speech. The Australian Communications and Media Authority tested the filters and found this:
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On 28 July 2008, an ACMA report entitled “Closed Environment Testing of ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering”[7] showed that of the six unnamed ISP-based filters evaluated:
* One filter caused a 22% drop in speed even when it was *not* performing filtering;
* Only one of the six filters had an acceptable level of performance (a drop of 2% in a laboratory trial), the others causing drops in speed of between 21% and 86%;
* The most accurate filters were often the slowest;
* All filters tested had problems with under-blocking, allowing access to between 2% and 13% of material that they should have blocked; and
* All filters tested had serious problems with over-blocking, wrongly blocking access to between 1.3% and 7.8% of the websites tested.
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But is this still allowed to go ahead?????