Malcolm Turnbull on internet filter, 5 September 2013

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Transcript from Triple J’s Hack program, starting at 26:20
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### Tom Tilley:
How does The Coalition justify their default internet filter, which was announced today, when the public has already rejected that policy?

### Malcolm Turnbull:
It’s not an internet filter in the sense of what Stephen Conroy was proposing.

### Anthony Albanese:
It’s worse.

### Malcolm Turnbull:
Please, just let me finish.

### What is being proposed is that there will be — there’s no server side filter — this is a system where… it’s what the British are going to employ…

### Tom Tilley:
Sorry, no server side filter? It says in the policy document: “Involve major internet service providers, providing home network filters”

### Malcolm Turnbull:
Ok, if you just let me finish… the filter will be contained in software installed in either people’s smartphones or modems — if they’ve got fixed line broadband — which can be disabled at their option. So it is not a filter that operates at the server side at the ISP. So it doesn’t slow down the internet. It is the same as having… it’s basically the same as installing a filter on your own computer, but by making it available as a default… then that means — because a lot of people struggle, you know, technically to be able to do that — so what it does is essentially installing that software, either in the smartphone or the modem as a default which you can switch off. But then that’s your call, because it’s our view that the responsibility should lie with the parent. But this is not a server side filter at all.

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### Some commentary:
So the plan is to get every single OS maker and internet-connected device maker to install pervasive, opt-out software that has access to all network traffic. Yeah, good luck with that technically, ethically or logistically.

What a farce.