According to the Electronic Frontiers Australia website, which can be viewed at http://openinternet.com.au/learn_more/, the filter will not protect children from inappropriate content, and will not block X-rated pornography. It will also do nothing to protect children from what parents are really concerned about such as cyber-bulling, online predators, viruses, spam or identity theft.
In relation to slowing down other websites there is also concern that the filter might seriously reduce the speed of online banking, shopping, and business websites. Furthermore if parts of popular social websites were blocked such as You-tube or Myspace, access to other parts of these sites could become much slower.
In all cases an Internet Filter for Australia would be a breach of the Freedom of Information Act and a monumental waste of taxpayers dollars.
We also talked about the privacy train wreck that is Facebook, as there is already evidence that Governments are using it to track criminals and find potential evidence to catch out people that like to post pictures and information about themselves involving illegal activities such as taking drugs and stealing. Also mentioned was that the government has the ability to potentially recover private content only shared among those chosen by the page owner.
The reason why privacy matters was also mentioned with an example given about a student who killed himself after he was secretly filmed in the privacy of his own bedroom by his dorm room mates. This story can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11446034
Finally we also talked about the possible relationship that Facebook has with the CIA and In-q-tel.
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