Dear Politicians: At Least Close Those Porn Tabs Before Sending Out Your Campaign Screenshots
from the pron dept
We all know the internet is for porn, right? But the implication in that age-old internet commandment is that it's for porn and nothing else. But that's not true! The internet is also for cats, for business-ing, for Techdirt, and for political messages. But what you really shouldn't do is mix any of those formers with the latter, which it appears is what congressional candidate Mike Webb did on his Facebook page.
What you might miss if you're not really paying attention is the open tabs Webb included in his screenshot: "Ivone sexy amateur" and "Layla Rivera tight booty."
The explanation is 2,000 words long. It does not make a huge amount of sense, but apparently blames the pornographic images on an experiment Webb was performing to see whether or not someone was using malware embedded on porn sites to infect electoral candidates with malware that would prevent them from filing their candidacy before the deadline.Sure, okay. You weren't jacking it, you were testing out a theory of malware delivered specifically to congressional candidates through weaponized porn videos. I'll give Webb credit: my head is spinning after trying to put the logic together that would make any of his explanation possible.
Maybe. It’s honestly hard to parse. Webb writes, in part: “Curious by nature, I wanted to test the suggestion that somehow, lurking out in the pornographic world there is some evil operator waiting for the one in a gazillion chance that a candidate for federal office would go to that particular website and thereby be infected with a virus that would cause his or her FEC [federal election commission] data file to crash the FECfile application each time that it was loaded on the day of the filing deadline, as well as impact other critical campaign systems.
It's probably a wasted effort. Mr. Webb, just mind your browser tabs next time, mmkay?
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And of course, I could always check by looking for the pages. In fact, yes dear, that's EXACTLY what I've been doing....
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Porn''s okay
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This just in...
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I dream of the day...
Of course I still want it to remain scandalous if a politician is rude to a prospective lover.
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It seems to have finally been pulled from his page, but of course nothing that catches people's attention ever truly disappears from the Internet. Behold, a serving of word salad that makes Sarah Palin look like Daniel Webster:
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Uhuh
Well, at least he used the word "test" and not "probe".
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Instead, it added a whole lot he didn't intend.
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The issue is that he's a moron for outing himself this way. The lack of attention to detail and obliviousness is not something most people want from their ideal politician.
Also he does it so often while working that it's no big deal and nothing that he is cautious about
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Benjamin Franklin once said.....
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Also... how does that work?
Internet Trojans = bad
Non-internet Trojans = not as bad
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Seriously, Webb SHOULD have denied that he had porn tabs open and made a token effort to take down images.
The Streisand Effect for porn sites is like free advertising.
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And when he gets an erection...
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Too lazy
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Or a substitute Senator that gets a lot of influence by lending his Yatch, colloquially named "Love Boat" - in English - for his peers to spend some leisure time with escorts paid by lobbyists. And then, while maintaining the worst kept secret, go around championing a platform of defence of the family and Christian Morality.
We had a Bachelor President in the 90's that went to Carnival, and hanged out with a Model that was using only a T - shirt. Nothing else. And journalists took pictures of them from bellow.
I'm waiting the day some political figure here pulls a Wiener or a Lord Sewel. Won't surprise me at all.
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Because all politicians jack it to porn, and they would all lie about doing it. So here, he is no different.
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"Yes, I was watching porn. Sorry I should have been more careful to close the tabs before posting anything publicly. "
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I'm still waiting for a politician, when caught in something like this, to actually own up.
"Yes, I was watching porn. Sorry I should have been more careful to close the tabs before posting anything publicly. "
-- Guy I would be proud to vote for!
"Those tabs were put there by aliens "
-- Guy I am forced to vote for instead
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