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.
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?
@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'
@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.