1) There's a long running problem of absue and harassment at Westminster. Staff describe abusers viewing porn in front of them, or sending them porn.
2) They're at work, and they're paid from public funds. They're always banging on about "efficiency" in other workplaces (education, healthcare, law-enforcement) so the hypocrisy is a bit hard to take.
Correction - there have been isolated, but high-profile, instances of abuse and harassment at Westminster. Same as pretty much every industry.
2) As I mentioned, the figures are suspect. Sure, there probably are some people actively checking out pornhub or whatever. I don't care about that any more than if they were looking at reddit or eBay or Facebook.
You misquoted your parent post. The parent did not say that viewing porn is abuse. The parent said that sending porn to other people, or watching it in front of other people without their consent, is abuse.
So, to state it outright. Watching porn is not a form of abuse. Watching porn in front of someone, or someone sending you unsolicited, unrequested porn, is a form of abuse.
How about a roommate having sex when you walk in?
I’m baffled by the hardline conservatism that permeates society today, often by the very people who consider themselves liberal. The intolerance they have to anything and everything is frightening.
It's abuse when an abuser does it with the intent to abuse another.
I see and hear a lot of things I don’t want to experience. Instead of being a victim and demanding trigger warnings, I move on.
Maybe the unsavoriness of the world is just the natural state of things that we should get over.
Brigandry was once a noble profession, but is no longer. In fact, killing random travelers on the road and robbing their stuff is dealt with most harshly nowadays.
Slavery was once the natural order of things, and many people no doubt "just got over it", but not all. And now it's illegal.
Pinching bottoms and feeling women up in the workplace or on trains was once part of a perfectly normal day, and the argument at the time was "What? We're not raping them or beating them! They're not getting pregnant or anything! No harm done!". And many women no doubt sucked it up and "just got over it" because it's "just the natural state of things". But not all. And now it's illegal.
Just because abuse is rampant doesn't mean you're obligated to tolerate it. You can choose to fight it, and should you succeed, others who would not or could not, will thank you for it.
I would however fire someone from sending porn to other people st work.
I think it’s very important to disambiguate what is wrong, what is illegal, and what is in the interests of shareholders.
These hits could include a grown adult looking at an adult model's pics on twitter, on their own phone, in their own time.
It was due to take effect as a law next week, but it's been delayed for unknown length.
It's a stupid idea that has very little public support, but that's Theresa May all over (she was Home secretary - whose purview such a law falls under - at the time it was made a law, before becoming PM)
Also, I feel like there are reasonable motives for visiting porn or porn-related sites in this case. It may sound like a joke but if work at legislative body responsible for creating new laws you should be able to do research.