You can read about it here: 
http://www.efa.org.au/category/censorship/mandatory-isp-filtering/

What I'm almost immediately reminded of, is the backstory of Ray Bradbury's 
classic "Fahrenheit 451".  While the government is often seen as being 
totalitarian in that book, I have always viewed it as a protectionist, 
decadent consumerist democracy (I think I got all the adjectives in there). 
While I haven't read the book in 20+ years, my recollection (which may even 
be wrong! lol) was that the society had essentially decided that books did 
more harm than good.  And who needs books?  You can get everything you need 
from watching your gigantic television (parlor room), or driving your car at 
200mph.  Trade-in those harmful concepts for a sheltered life that is free 
from guilt and pain...  Utopia!

In that vein, I think an updated Fahrenheit 451 would start out just like 
this.  Initiate a filter that removes "harmful" (or illegal) 
content/material, then keep expanding the definition of "harmful". 
Eventually, intelligent bots can do it for us, so no one even needs to know 
what "harmful" is anymore.  Fast forward a few decades...

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