The government has committed to trials of the mandatory internet filter before implementation.
On 28 July 2008, an ACMA report entitled “Closed Environment Testing of ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering” 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.
Mark Pesce believes that the nature of the internet itself has allowed the organization of unprecedented levels of ad-hoc political action ("hyperpolitics") to oppose internet filtering, and that the Federal Government will be forced to back down from the filtering proposal.
The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISPs (Telstra, iiNet and Internode) have stated in an interview that the internet filtering proposal simply cannot work for various technical, legal and ethical reasons. The managing director of iiNet, Michael Malone, has said of Stephen Conroy "This is the worst Communications Minister we've had in the 15 years since the [internet] industry has existed," and plans to sign up his ISP for participation in live filtering trials by December 24 to provide the Government with "hard numbers" demonstrating "how stupid it [the filtering proposal] is."
Dale Clapperton, the current chairperson of EFA, argues that the Labor party cannot implement the clean feed proposal without either new legislation and the support of the Australian Senate, or the assistance of the Internet Industry Association. As the Liberals and Greens have both stated that they will not support legislation, it can only be implemented with the support of the IIA.
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