I have a problem.
The new Australian Labor Party leader and now leader of our fine country, Kevin Rudd, has decided to pull a think of the children on us, and despite widespread criticism, they seem intent on following through. This is scary - Orwell scary. It’s an Internet censorship scheme for protecting children from watching pornography - or other matter deemed inappropriate. It sounds innocent enough, but a little bit of a smell somewhat like China’s Internet censorship.

The main aim seems to be to protect children from the Big Bad World, but an article on auntie makes a somewhat subtle switch half way through:

He says the scheme will better protect children from pornography and violent websites.

And then two paragraphs later, the goals seem to have shifted a bit:

“If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to disagree.”

I’m not advocating watching child pornography in any way, I’d just like to note that these two quotes state very distinct and orthogonal aims. And read the whole damn thing before you jump up and down doing the reactionary dance. The first is what we hear all along, a simple plea to keep our children innocent. The second however, wants to stop criminals from commiting crimes.
But, praytell, is the second goal realistic at all? Won’t these criminals just opt-out of the filtering system, and so won’t ever feel any effect whatsoever? Surely they’ve taken that into consideration - in which case, does this mean that all traffic will go through these filters, only at different levels? That’s fine. Child porn is bad. It’s good to limit the amount of fucked up children in the world, and reducing the amount of child porn might just help.
But just when do the Thought Police start tracking you? If I’m looking for schematics for a Boeing 747, will I be marked as “needing review”? How about if I read the Anarchist’s Cookbook online? Or if I’m reading about Jonestown, and happen to mention to a friend that “this Jim Jones guy is pretty cool”, and they take it just a bit too seriously. Will I be waking up later that night to a loud knocking on my skull?

The government, our overlords, and Our Ford all seem pretty intent on following through with this - it’s apparently about to start being tested very soon now, so I guess it might not be too long before we see it implemented here. I’m not happy about this, but how about a compromise:
Show us your code.
If you’re going to censor us, to filter us, and all that, then the best thing you could possibly do to let us know we can trust you is to release the source code to the filter.
Make it publicly available. If you think it’s going to help humanity, then that’s even better - you could give the source to the entire Earth, and all nations could benefit from our work. But at the very least, everyone who’s at all skeptical of this move will have most of their fears calmed.