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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/03/parliament-porn-websites_n_3859837.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

MPs, Lords and parliamentary staff have been trying to access porn websites potentially thousands of times, official figures reveal.

Following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from the Huffington Post UK, the House of Commons authorities acknowledged that users of the Parliamentary Network servers, including both MPs and their staff, have repeatedly attempted to access websites classed on Parliament's network as pornographic between May 2012 and July 2013.

According to the official figures, the number of attempts to access pornographic websites via the Parliamentary network peaked for 2012 at 114,844 last November and at 55,552 in April for 2013. At least 5,000 people are estimated to be working on the parliamentary estate.

However, the figures have varied wildly, with the peak in attempted access this April more than halving in the following month to just 18,436 this May.

Parliamentary officials indicated that the figures would be inflated by websites automatically refreshing and thus adding to recorded access attempts. Additionally, pop-up or embeddable content like videos and pictures could have a knock-on effect on the number of access attempts recorded.

This comes after David Cameron pushed for an "opt in" system for viewing online porn.

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  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,468
    Parliamentary officials indicated that the figures would be inflated by websites automatically refreshing and thus adding to recorded access attempts.
    Oh, that's okay then...
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,498
    must be one of the few big organisations that doesn't have 'anti-porn' filtering ... just goes to show how many w**nkers the great British public elect to high office ((:->)
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,091
    Haha. Jacqui Smith's husband been let on the loose in Westminster then? I always knew politicians were a bunch of *insert own tired and predictable punchline*
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Cheeky wankers.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,194
    'Wankgate' scandal
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    November '12 was a very excitable month.

    Attempts per month

    May 2012: 2,141
    June 2012: 2,261
    July 2012: 6,024
    August 2012: 26,952
    September 2012: 15,804
    October 2012: 3,391
    November 2012: 114,844
    December 2012: 6,918
    January 2013: 18,494
    February 2013: 15
    March 2013: 22,470
    April 2013: 55,552
    May 2013: 18,346
    June 2013: 397
    July 2013: 15,707
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    that was when the new films come out on Red Tube
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Nothing even comes (pun intended) close to November.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,951
    what happened in Feb 13, embarrasingly low.
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    I reckon they got a stern warning in January

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  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,661
    According to the report these are 'attempts' to access portnographic websites. You'd think after all these attempts somebody would have got it right. Dim feckers!
  • maybe_baby
    maybe_baby Posts: 2,609
    I expect a large majority of men look at porn on the net whilst at work, so nothing out of the ordinary here.
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Maybe if you're in your own office, with no one else in the building, but why would you normally?

    Then again, i'm not married.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,010
    Someone sent me a link to a nightclub websites photos the other week and when I clicked on it, it was classed as pornographic, I dread to think what we were doing.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,661
    JT said:

    I reckon they got a stern stiff warning in January

  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,611
    Perhaps they were trying to force a General Erection.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,098
    maybe_baby said:

    I expect a large majority of men look at porn on the net whilst at work, so nothing out of the ordinary here.

    Really?
    Most work computers would not allow any of them sites to be opened.

  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Soapy Jones doing Research?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,498
    edited September 2013
    3blokes said:

    Perhaps they were trying to force a General Erection.

    hohoho .. best pun on the subject so far ((:->)
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,494
    MrOneLung said:

    maybe_baby said:

    I expect a large majority of men look at porn on the net whilst at work, so nothing out of the ordinary here.

    Really?
    Most work computers would not allow any of them sites to be opened.

    This.

    Anyone porn surfing at work is an idiot.

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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,194
    Unless you work from home.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,494
    ValleyGary said:

    Unless you work from home.

    Not if you're using a VPN to connect to work...

  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,091
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    ValleyGary said:

    Unless you work from home.

    Not if you're using a VPN to connect to work...

    I wish someone had told me that a year ago
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,924
    Don Valley MP Caroline Flint's despatch box is well worth a butcher's. Just imagine what Black Rod would do with her. See Google Images.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Agree with Leroy, surely you can wait a few hours if you want to rub one out.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,661
    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    Agree with Leroy, surely you can wait a few hours if you want to rub one out.

    A few hours? Oh come on Brendan, get real :-)

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