Posted on 03/11/2017 4:00:47 AM PST by NYer
The Trump administration has made life miserable for yet another special-interest group: Porn-watching perverts "working" at federal agencies
A House committee on oversight has approved prohibiting federal employees from using government computers and devices to watch pornography on the job.
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee unanimously approved House Resolution 680, entitled the “Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act.”
The legislation, sponsored by Congressman Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina), would require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue new guidelines within 90 days to “prohibit the access of a pornographic or other explicit web site from a Federal computer.”
Rep. Meadows has been trying to get this legislation through three times, given all the disgusting stories he's heard of federal employees spending their working hours looking at filth on the Internet instead of doing their work and answering citizen phone calls. What's more, these one-hand losers can't even be fired. With President Trump now in office, apparently, the political atmosphere has improved and the bill is moving through for another try.
Those in favor cited the theft of time and the hostile work environment for women. Those are perfectly valid reasons. But there probably are more.
Porn is a favorite means of hackers to draw clicks for assorted phishing expeditions to steal data. It was just such a phishing expedition, albeit not from porn, that enabled some sort of hackers to expose the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, which has led to countless brouhahas still not spent out even today.
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And all those benefits besides. The bennies came about because back in the day government employees were not well paid relative to private workers. Now they've outstripped the private sector and still have the perks.
How about firing some of these porn wathchers??
Same here...
Thanks to the unions you can’t require government workers to actually work you can only chip away at their non-work activities. (no sarcasm tag for this post)
They’re going to need to establish a bunch of lunchtime 12-step groups for the Foggy Bottom porn addicts.
Free them, Lord.
t was just such a phishing expedition, albeit not from porn, that enabled some sort of hackers to expose the emails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta,...
Imagine, if you will, a 350 pound female Social Security worker helping you get a replacement Social Security card.
Nude.
Pornography is like any other
addiction. It takes more and more of the drug to produce
the same high; and it takes more and WORSE forms of the
drug to produce a high.
I’m not a porn user but I don’t think this is true at all.
Theft of time and security risk indeed termination on the spot.
Any taxpayer, including coworkers, have the right to anonymously report state or federal employees who are goofing off on the taxpayer dime.
Viewing porn at work is only part of the problem.
Why should taxpayers continue paying salaries -—and pensions!!-— for people who spend most of their workday on their Facebook and Instagram accounts?
This is why we have 3 bureaucrats drawing $120k salaries, where one would suffice.
Drain the swamp. Balance the budget.
My opinion is just different to yours. IF you ever do get
entangled in it; see if you still think the same if you
ever escape from it.
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So, you think you can do “just a little” porn and then just turn away?
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Other than the obvious “FacePalm” aspect of this ... Managers should simply search each employee’s computer and post their history and viewing habits under each person’s name on a public web site so we can ALL see what we are paying for. The employee does NOT own the computers and neither can they claim “Privacy” as they get paid with PUBLIC money.
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So, you think you can do “just a little” porn and then just turn away?
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I have never honed my porn opinion. I’m a woman and I don’t use it but I am not as offended by it. The worst thing about porn to me is that possibly some porn actors are coerced or psychologically taken advantage of. But they do make money.
I do believe that people can watch porn, even if they watch it regularly, and not need a) to start watching it every couple hours or b) to ramp up their porn content from “normal” sexual interactions to “needing more perversion.” If a man gets off on watching regular sex, I do not believe that he will be soon needing sex with goats, sex with razor blade cutting of each other, sex with shoes or inanimate objects, snuff film sex or child porn.
It is not like a drug addiction, like the OP said. Can some people be addicted to porn? Of course. And clearly they have mental problems. Just like the people addicted to food who never leave their lazy boy chair and eat cheetos all day long.
Porn is about to ramp wayyyy up, with virtual reality. As a woman I have a fear that men won’t want us any more when they try virtual sex with the artificial stimulator gadgets.
But there always was porn and there always will be. Ever since that first cave man found a blackened stick and drew on a rock wall.
I admit that I can’t speak from experience. I don’t know what being entangled in porn is.* I don’t know what the answer is for such people. It might be like families going out to eat and everyone is looking st their cell phones and not speaking to each other. If a man has a woman but ignores her for porn even if she is willing, and he promised to love her (married to her), then they have a problem.
But visual porn is an extension of people’s sexual fantasies. And people’s sexual fantasies are not going away. Every single person who has enough sex hormones in their body has them (some asexuals say they don’t).
*There is no way for me to become entangled in porn.
Having lived a fairly long life, experience has taught me
to not gossip or sneer at anyone for there but for the
grace and requested help of God go I.
Uh. No. Twinkie didn’t say that either. I think porn is an
addiction that has a lot of people in its grips; and
probably even the people who produce and sell it. - The
height of the malodorous product would most likely be
the “snuff” movies - and WORSE if that’s possible.
I reread what I wrote and I can’t see what it was that you thought I was gossiping or sneering (at you? Or at whom?) about. I apologize if you got that impression, for not composing my thoughts more carefully. But I don’t see it.
And the law is struggling to keep up...
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