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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42151148
The rumblings about his porn collection continue to roll but to me this is a lot more complex than is being portrayed.
First off, I should clarify that i am a right leaning voter, however Mr Green is my MP and I can't stand the man personally.
2 ex police have now come out and said he had loads of porn downloaded on his computer, and while this may be the case, both have stated categorically that there was nothing illegal in it, so, why, one asks, do they feel the need to make unauthorised statements on it, after they have left the force, it wasn't illegal, and therefore was not a police matter. Its clearly meant as a smear campaign.
However, I have been with companies where if they downloaded any porn whatsoever on a company computer it was an instant dismissal, and I saw it enforced many times. But, it wasn't so much because they were downloading porn, it was because the sources of that porn were havens for viruses, trojans etc that put the companies security at risk.
With Mr Green being in a position where he is likely to have been in possession of very sensitive information, it is a matter of gross misconduct to me, and he should be given the boot, and the same should apply to anyone else found to have been doing the same.
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I agree with the points you've made. What he did in his own time, so long as its legal, which it is/was isn't anyone's business. What he does in company time is a different matter. Touring porn sites carries a high risk of downloading malicious software. He even risked being blackmailed and all that on a government computer!!
Regardless of what he was looking at, he used company time and therefore company money to get his thrills. That, by most companies, would be considered theft.