UK MP in trouble for pornography use- your thoughts?

I'm comfortable enough thay people should have the freedom to look at porn if they want. I can't, obviously, that's bean proven. But my struggles aren't everyone's.

Work is work though. You aren't supposed to have sex in the office, or drink in the office, and I think porn use is also fair to disallow. I also have absolutely no doubt that the code of conduct in parliament will have disallowed it, whether specifically or as part of a general behavioural prohibition.

One of my staff was telling a group of people at lunch one day that he innocently went to Playboy's2website when Hugh Hefner died, to read their obit. Didn't occur to him that he shouldn't. Got an IT warning. I mean of course he did.

 

It's equivalent of sleeping when you are supposed to be working. Or playing a video game, or browsing Facebook. The problem here is that you are wasting your time at work doing something else when you are supposed to be working. They are wasting money paying you for those hours. That's about as far as "wrong" doing of this goes in my opinion. If somebody's doing these things at their lunch break I don't see any moral problem with it.

That being said, companies and institutions still want to keep their environment clean and professional so they have right to not allow such things in work place. So if that goes against internal work policy then it is a reason to get fired, because he acted unprofessionally. If there are no such rules in work policy at that particular institution then I see no reason why would that be bad thing, even at work place in person free time brake.

 

May have been completely legal pornography, but it's on a parliamentary computer. Those computers should never be used for private use, especially for pornography. It's not about having a private life.

 

Only goes to show the pernicious affect of pornography as people come to increasingly indulge in risky behavior.... the addiction, and perhaps depression, over-rides the observation of civil behavior.

 

Leaders with integrity? When you look at the state of the world and the way superpowers function, its pretty clear that nothing could be further from the truth.

 

It would be good if the MP admitted he had an addiction and then launched a campaign to tackle this whole problem at various levels. And then other countries took inspiration from it.