Safesearch must be on at all times

[Devec]

Court Says Porn on Work Computer Is Grounds for Firing

A federal appeals court is issuing a clear warning to employees: Violate your employer’s computer-use policy and be fired.

With that in mind, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the firing of a Wisconsin high school biology teacher and union president for viewing thumbnail images of porn for one minute. Robert Zellner, an 11-year teacher, claimed his 2006 termination for typing “blonde” in the Google search bar was in retaliation for his constitutionally protected criticism of his employer.

And the actual way it went:

First, Zellner disengaged the “safe search” filter. He then typed “blonde” into the Google search box. The search produced 20 “thumbnail” images, all of them pornographic, with links to more images within and outside the Google website. He then clicked to display the next 20 images. Zellner then clicked a link entitled “more of these” adjacent to images from http://www.ardentes.free.frblonde.com. When Zellner did so, another 20 pornographic “thumbnail” images were displayed on his monitor for a total of 17 seconds. Zellner did not click on any of the photographs displayed in his search. The entire incident took 67 seconds.

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TL;DR: Man gets fired over typing blonde in google search without safesearch on and sees thumbnails of blonde naked women. Gets fired over this.

The law can now prosecute you for seeing thumbnails of pornographic nature if your employee desires so.

[Krugerrand]

he deliberately disabled safe search. What does he expect?

edit: and then goes and clicks "more please"

[elmicker]

quotan'. It was hardly an accident, was it?

[56k Lagman]

WHAT A PERVERT! WORKED FOR A SCHOOL TOO? OBVIOUSLY A PEDO THEN

[TurielD]

Meh, he was browsing porn, on purpose. I can kind of understand especially as this is at a school.

Is this really a new development? TBH all that seems different here from browsing porn any other way is just that the porn images were small...

[Takon Orlani]

WHAT A PERVERT! WORKED FOR A SCHOOL TOO? OBVIOUSLY A PEDO THEN

[Jolin]

He should be fired for not using private browsing mode. Even IE has it nowadays.

[Chakrai]

He's stupid as fuck. I'm a teacher and one of the most important things you learn very fucking early is not to do anything remotely personal using your school's computers.

[helgur]

He should be fired for using IE

fyp

[Liare]

He should be fired for not using private browsing mode. Even IE has it nowadays.

it's pretty standard procedure to require the usage of the company proxy server for HTTP traffic for precisely this reason, or indeed disable the option in question entirely.

[Tellenta]

He's both stupid and fired, sounds like a good thing to me.

[Davd]

ITT stupid people getting fired for doing stupid things.

How is this lolus again?

Fake edit:
No I didn't bother reading the article.

[Jolin]

He should be fired for not using private browsing mode. Even IE has it nowadays.

it's pretty standard procedure to require the usage of the company proxy server for HTTP traffic for precisely this reason, or indeed disable the option in question entirely.

It's been a while since I worked at a company with any sort of restrictions on my browsing.

[Liare]

He should be fired for not using private browsing mode. Even IE has it nowadays.

it's pretty standard procedure to require the usage of the company proxy server for HTTP traffic for precisely this reason, or indeed disable the option in question entirely.

It's been a while since I worked at a company with any sort of restrictions on my browsing.

used to work IT in the educational system, we had to run the filtering rather strictly.

the worst part was probably the whole ethical side of things though, i never did accept the "its IT's responsibility to decide what's appropriate or not." was a constant source of meetings and disagreement especially when people where not satisfied with the default filtering we got off websense.

[EntroX]

seriously, anyone who willingly disables safe search on google on their work computer should be fired just under the Darwinian law.

[TimMc]

He's pretty stupid. I imagine he has done it in the past, I don't expect many companies would fire someone over a 1 minute porn thumbnail search.

[Shaikar]

ITT stupid people getting fired for doing stupid things.

How is this lolus again?

Fake edit:
No I didn't bother reading the article.

Don't worry, the OP didn't read the article either as he seems to think the court prosecuted someone for looking at porn at work. The article says no such thing.

The law can now prosecute you for seeing thumbnails of pornographic nature if your employee desires so.

[Devec]

ITT stupid people getting fired for doing stupid things.

How is this lolus again?

Fake edit:
No I didn't bother reading the article.

Don't worry, the OP didn't read the article either as he seems to think the court prosecuted someone for looking at porn at work. The article says no such thing.

The law can now prosecute you for seeing thumbnails of pornographic nature if your employee desires so.

No I did actually read the article as I know exactly what happened. He got fired and sued them for terminating his employment on invalid grounds. However due to some law it was apparently completely valid to do so. In that sense an employer is able to actually apply this law to validate the termination, I may have worded it wrong because english is not my main language (oh god noes) but it still boils down to that.

Lolus also applies to any occasion, deal with it.

[Al Simmons]

Imo they should fire you for even thinking about sex during work hours.

[spasm]

Stop the fucking presses, browsing pron at work and not doing your job can get you fired? Man, the US is so fucked up.