One of the very few legacies left by Joe Bullock, the Labor Senator who resigned because he couldn’t handle Labor Party support for marriage equality, is an anti-porn inquiry he set up a few months back. Most of the submissions are now in, and they’re mostly members of the public calling again for the unpopular mandatory internet filtering scheme to be brought in.
Some of them paint sorry tales of people who were just trying to look up innocent content and were bombarded with ladyparts. Be careful what you google, people.
Putting on her IT support cap, Ms Tips attempted to replicate the issue, but to no success. Is it possible the concerned writer might have accidentally searched for the wrong rodent?
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Possible that someone experimented with turning off the “safesearch” filter. You know… for research.