London: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reports 300,000 attempts were made by British Parliament members to accesses pornographic websites last year.
According to the reports by BBC, British government members have been found guilty to access pornographic websites. On the other hand, House of Commons officials claim that it is not yet clear that the members of the parliament are actually involved in the incident.
The House of Commons claim that the figures have been exaggerated by the websites and third party software industries who themselves load the stats themselves.
There more or less 5000 parliamentarians working and the post revealed by Huffington Post UK on behalf of Freedom of Information.
The figures widely vary from 15 in February whereas 114,844 attempts were carried out in November. Per month attempts have been given below:
May 2012: 2,141
June 2012: 2,261
July 2012: 6,024
August 2012: 26,952
September 2012: 15,804
October 2012: 3,391
November 2012: 114,844
December 2012: 6,918
January 2013: 18,494
February 2013: 15
March 2013: 22,470
April 2013: 55,552
May 2013: 18,346
June 2013: 397
July 2013: 15,707
The spokeswoman of House of Commons responded, “We do not consider the data to provide an accurate representation of the number of purposeful requests made by network users”.
Earlier, British Prime Minister, 2 months ago ordered filtration of internet websites so that home users won’t access the controversial websites.
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