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# ‘I Was Sure I Typed Newshub, NOT Pornhub’
- URL: https://goodoil.news/i-was-sure-i-typed-newshub-not-pornhub/
- Published: 2019-11-13T01:30:58.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-12T09:25:45.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

Oh dear. Government employees in New Zealand have been caught trying to visit naughty websites and no I am not talking about **Porn sites** although they have been caught trying to do that too.

![Oh No Wow GIF by Originals](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/media/3o6ZtakXco6ZX2T66I/giphy.gif)

**NZ Government employee accidentally types in Pornhub instead of Newshub** (damn predictive text!)

Apparently what they have been doing is so much worse than porn. They have been trying to read content on **Alt-right websites!** ( oh and **“supremacist sites”**). I have never even heard of such sites in New Zealand let alone tried to find them. Why on earth would government employees be going on a [supremacist goose chase?](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/04/in-search-of-the-rare-endangered-white-supremacist/?ref=goodoil.news)

What is really interesting are the excuses being rolled out in an attempt to excuse the behaviour.

> Treasury officials have pointed to pop-ups as the likely reason why some of its employees were blocked from looking at a number of **alt-right and supremacist websites** amid **more than a million searches** stopped by its systems between October 2018 and August 2019.

> The issue was revealed in response to an Official Information Act request by MediaWorks, which also confirmed staff at the Department of Conservation had been blocked from [accessing **pornography** sites](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c%5Fid=1&objectid=12284317&ref=goodoil.news) **148 times since the end of January.**

> A Treasury spokesman said it would be **wrong to assume all blocked attempts were from people deliberately** trying to access the websites.

No doubt they all were searching for a nutritious breakfast cereal and thanks to predictive text a KKK website popped up. It could happen to anyone.

![interested look GIF by Anime Crimes Division](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/media/YWy93Zf9eW8RMlK0gK/giphy.gif)

I was searching for Special K breakfast cereal and look where I ended up…

> \[…\] Robertson on Tuesday told reporters that, along with the pop-up issue, it was also **possible staff had also been looking at the sites as part of their work** after the Christchurch mosque shootings.

> “What I’ll be seeking that it’s understood that, if in the normal course of events, **people have to be looking at these sites** they’ll be talking to their manager about that.”  
>  
> A Newspaper

Is this confirmation that government employees are being paid to spy on people? It certainly sounds like it.