Good morning folks

It is a genuine shame that the internet has forgotten Bernadette Taylor, and how she basically went 'BTW, a LOT of you look at my porn site during work hours' to a bunch of politicians, back in 1999.

> Last week Bernadette exposed the hypocrisy of the Australian government's decision to censor the Net by revealing that 4,316 individuals are using government-provided Internet access to view pornography during work hours.

A LOT OF THEM.

Girl basically fronted up for freedom of internet use back in the late 90s, and everyone's just gone 'well, time to forget her' after she died.

Like, imagine just throwing that out there.

'I have the site logs, and - by the way - your credit card details'

Straight upppppp

#Pornhub just went censored in Australia, needing a login/age verification.

Oof.

Remember what I was saying about Bernadette Taylor the other night?

This was the shit she was fighting against, 26 years back

Digging around on textfiles.com, and... #glorantha?

http://textfiles.com/fun/gems.01

@DarkestKale Did a search, all the results are for something called Eastenders
Web porn queen fights restrictions down under

Australian politicians beware -- she's got your number, your credit card number

The Register

@MachineLordZero yar, that's what I did manage to find.

Took me AGES to remember her name, was sorta mentally compiling a 'who were the big ladies of the earlier-internet'

Naked Australian Redhead -- Missing!

She posed naked on the web, fought for pornography online, and even kept an online "Diary of a Virtual Girlfriend." But after earning a place in internet history, Bernadette Taylor vanished without a trace.

Pigdog Journal
@MachineLordZero lol, that thumbnail

@MachineLordZero This article is 'we don't know what happened to her site' - I'm also looking at a usegroup post on aus.censorship - in 1998 - that's implying her site went offline. The article you've got says it went offline a year earlier, which'd put it at 2k.

The answer's a bit sad, tho - she passed away and her husband basically went 'NOPE' and wiped everything, from what I've read.