Recently a lot of up in arms has been over some EMT folks viewing a "pornographic" website during their down time and they were fired or suspended without pay, depending upon the extent of their viewing pleasure on the internet at their work environment.
I have an antagonistic coworker that, when she isn't busy, she is nagging me about one thing or another. One day, I was scrolling down the CT home page and there was someone scantily clothed on a picture on the cherry blast section. She, with her hawk eyes, said - "let me see that again". I looked at her very puzzled. "You know, that naked person there. I think you are looking at pornography." When she talks, she is like EF Hutton in a sense -- excepting, everyone hears her but not necessarily listens because she is into everyone's business.
I got a bit defensive, partly because she had been nagging me all day to know end about this or that. No one likes her because of her nagging and busibodiness. I am flippant right back out her and can throw out as much to her (in pure fun) as she can dish out to me.
I told her (1) that that particular picture was one of a person in a swimsuit (thank goodness it wasn't one in some lingerie), (2) that I wasn't looking at the blast, but I was chatting with a friend of mine in the shoutbox, and (3) it was none of her business!!!
All my coworkers know that I go to this site. They know that I love to blog and communicate with friends and the like; I have been blogging on several sites since 2003/2004 so it is no surprise to them that I am surfing CT for blogs, etc. I avoid the NSFW stuff at work. Thank goodness they are marked for the most part so that I can avoid them. The last thing I need is to have my antagonist coworker with her hawkeyes start up a stink about anything of the sort, although I have explained to my coworkers that CT is like MS, but geared strictly for adults. Most folks are familiar with the comparison of MS and are okay with that. I leave it at that. They know that MS can be quite radical at times these days with some of their MS videos and more, even as a "14 and over" social website.
The thing that caught my attention though on the news station when they were continuing to talk about the EMT folks that were caught viewing a "pornographic" website, they mentioned that the site wasn't illegal though. What the heck is that?
Could they be referring to the CT website? After all, there are some NSFW photos and such. CT has their own standards of NSFW; I would, personally, consider it a little bigger range than some of they would see it, insofar as a website. Point is though, everyone has their standards and levels of tolerances. For instance, someone from the Amish country probably wouldn't have the same view point as someone that is from Europe where they have even Naked News on tv there like it is nothing different from an ordinary means of life.
I do wonder though, if the site the EMT folks were looking at was "pornographic" but not "illegal", what site could that possibly be??? Doesn't pornographic sites generally connotate that something is absolutely illegal about it??? Where, then, is the line of distinction between legal pornography and illegal pornography???
Do you have a clarifying answer for me????
