Amidst the seemingly endless complaints from the internet industry, communications minister Stephen Conroy has proceeded with plans for a live pilot trial of ISP based filtering and the report is now available here.

The pilot was conducted to evaluate the real world effect of the numbers and statistics garnered from the government’s closed trial last year. The results show that URL blacklisting was 100% accurate, and did not affect performance.  The dynamic optional filter results ranged from 78.8% to 84.6% of 'unwanted' material successfully filtered, and only between 2.4% and 3.7% of 'wanted' material accidentally blocked. 

The report says, "The majority of these filtering technologies, when correctly installed, enable the filtering of additional content with minimal or no performance impact."

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