U.K – According to news published by Huffington post, MPs, Lords and parliamentary staff have been trying to access porn websites potentially thousands of times, official figures reveal.
MPs and their staff were accessing pornographic via Parliament’s network between May 2012 and July 2013, the House of Commons authorities acknowledged after the Freedom of Information request from Huffington post.
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.
Officials said that the statics would be showing after by automatically refreshing of websites, pop-up or enbedded content like videos and pictures and that’s the reason of statics showing entry of Pornographic content.
Attempts to access websites classed as pornography on the Parliamentary Network
May 2012: 2141
June 2012: 2261
July 2012: 6024
August 2012: 26,952
September 2012: 15,804
October 2012: 3391
November 2012: 114,844
December 2012: 6918
January 2013: 18494
February 2013: 15
March 2013: 22,470
April 2013: 55,552
May 2013: 18,346
June 2013: 397
July 2013: 15,707
The spokeswoman declined to respond to the question that such content which would likely be deemed “pornographic” on Parliamentary servers would not be found whilst surfing normal mainstream websites.
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This begs the question… What websites were they going to that have porno popups? No “legitimate” site is going to have those.