Originally Posted by OCT

The internet filter might not be such a bad thing, but it really will depend on how it's implemented. I think it'd be safe to say that a large percentage of the public would be silently outraged if their favourite TGP or Torrent site was banned, but I'm not sure that's what will be targeted.

There is a lot of material out there on the net that should be banned. Kiddie porn and rape are at the top of that list, and as long as false positives aren't generated too often, I'm more than happy to have my internet filtered.

Not considering the political side of it though, technically it'd be a nightmare to introduce any kind of country-wide filtering system. It would have to be on an ISP-by-ISP basis, and the processing power required by heuristic analysis of all information passing through any gateway would be immense. Most ISPs have enough trouble filtering spam, so checking every HTTP request alone would be an incredible undertaking. And that'd still leave the P2P traffic which accounts for the largest share of bandwidth by far, and is more often than not encrypted anyway.