Kale Mar 4
Good morning folks
Show thread Kale Mar 5

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.

Show threadMachine Lord ZeroMar 5
@DarkestKale Did a search, all the results are for something called Eastenders
Show threadMachine Lord ZeroMar 5
@DarkestKale Found an article: https://www.theregister.com/1999/06/02/web_porn_queen_fights_restrictions/
Web porn queen fights restrictions down under

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

The Register
Show thread Kale 

@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'

Mar 5 at 3:41pmWeb
Show threadMachine Lord ZeroMar 5
@DarkestKale Also found this: https://www.pigdog.org/auto/ClothingOptional/shortfeature/2344.html
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
Show thread Kale Mar 5
@MachineLordZero lol, that thumbnail
Show thread Kale Mar 5

@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.

Show threadMachine Lord ZeroMar 5
@DarkestKale :(