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Australian Politician Caught Viewing Porn

Posted by samzenpus on from the stiff-opposition-party dept.

destinyland writes "An Australian Parliament member has resigned after admitting he'd used government computers to access porn and gambling sites. McLeay 'gave an uncomfortable press conference outside Parliament House,' notes one technology site, 'during which he admitted he had acted in a standard not expected of cabinet ministers.' Paul McLeay was also the Minister for Mineral and Forest Resources as well as the Minister for Ports and Waterways. In resigning, he apologized to his constituents and parliamentary colleagues, as well as to his wife and family."

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  1. What I care about by Sonny+Yatsen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't care if a politician was caught watching internet porn. A lot of people (if not most) do it and politicians are no exception.

    I do care if a politician was caught paying for internet porn. That tells me a lot about whether he's able to spend money wisely.

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    1. Re:What I care about by DaMattster · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, we know the CEOs, CIOs, and CFOs have admitted to it. Yes, it is a misuse of taxpayer funded systems but I don't think it is really that bad. It would be worse if said politican were railing against pornography all the while engaging in it. Nothing pisses me off more than a hypocritical politican so I guess I hate most, if not all politicans.

    2. Re:What I care about by DrgnDancer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What I can't figure is: what's so hard about "don't watch porn on work computers"? No is saying "don't watch porn", just don't use company/government resources to do it. It's not a hard concept. It's not a foreign concept. Hell most of us carry around portable, largely untraceable Internet devices in our pockets these days. If you GOTTA have a fix, get some head phones and use that.

      Personally I've never seen the draw of porn at a time when I can't really conveniently... eh.. use it. So to speak.

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    3. Re:What I care about by c++0xFF · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I care if he watches porn if he then votes for internet pornography filters. I can't stand hypocrites.

      Note that I don't know if this is the case, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

    4. Re:What I care about by ljgshkg · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Agreed. I don't care if he's watching internet porn or not during any time. I only care if he's doing his job well. A politician spending all of his time working for his own benefit (or for his next election? hence doing "his job", or so it seems) might well be doing a worse and less useful job than a politician watching a bit of porn using tax payer funded systems.

    5. Re:What I care about by darthdavid · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Anon.Clown was a little ham-handed is his phrasing, but to say it better, anyone who builds an entire career based on publicly decrying something which is seen as immoral by some but not all of their constituents has a pretty good chance of having skeletons of that nature in their closet. The phrase "Methinks the lady doth protest too much" springs to mind. It's a well known psychological phenomenon that people trying (incompetently) to hid embarrassing personal habits are often the loudest voices shrieking about how awful those habits are.

      That doesn't mean that every person who speaks out against something is guilty of it, it just means that you should look carefully at the people with nothing better to do than talk about how immoral someone else is, because they might just be trying to divert attention from their own indiscretions.

    6. Re:What I care about by sycodon · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Because if you can't find free porn on the internet, you're an idiot and have no business running the government.

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  2. never more appropriate by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's the most appropriate response to this 'story'

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  3. Not for the reason you'd think... by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reason why they're making such a fuss over his porn and gambling is that he had to bypass the Great Firewall of Australia to access them. When it comes to accessing sex and gambling on the internet, that's where Australia draws the line!!!

    1. Re:Not for the reason you'd think... by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's the Great Firewall of China and the Great Barrier Router of Australia.

      Get your jokes right.

  4. What Percentage Of Internet Users View Porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's basically the same as masturbation, guys. Yes, we all do it, but that doesn't mean that you can do it at work. Especially if you work at McDonalds. Please.

  5. What a horrible, horrible man! by multipartmixed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, that's disgusting.

    He's so gross, he probably sticks his penis in his wife's vagina!

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  6. Or in the Doctor's office by digit1001 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...A man goes to see his Dr. and the Dr. says, "sir you're going to have to stop masturbating". The man says, "Why" and the doctor says, "Because I'm trying to examine you"