When I first started writing a post on this topic 5 or 6 months ago it was largely a technical detail-based doc that sought to expose the depth of absurdity that Senator Conroy and the Rudd Labor government should pursue this internet filtering policy so fervently, but three to four thousand words later I’d barely scratched the surface on why CleanFeed just won’t work, and why it is ridiculous that the government try and push it through regardless. I still think this topic needs addressing, but I’ve started afresh, and kept it brief...
In the interests of keeping this short the areas I wanted to address are: content and censorship standards, practical outcomes, and motivation.
CleanFeed is being promoted on the basis of ‘reducing child abuse’, that children need to be
