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UES Private School Lawsuit Spotlights Lax Anime Porn Policy
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Jaya Saxena
Published Jan 31, 2011
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Nancy Lin, a former IT director at St. David's private school on the Upper East Side, is suing the school over alleged civil-rights violations after she discovered that she was the lowest paid administrator. Boring! But here's why you may read about this in the Post: Within this lawsuit, Lin claims that the school's computer servers were clogged with "shocking" Japanese "anime" porn when she started her job in 2005, and that principal P. David Halloran didn't care.
We're not exactly sure what the Japanese porn allegations have to do with any civil-rights violations, other than Lin possibly feeling uncomfortable because she is Asian-American, but it's always amusing to know what the millions of dollars in tuition is going toward. Lin claims she was surprised to find the school had no Web content filter when she started in 2005, so in 2007 she installed one to protect the students from "unfettered access to...offensive and obscene material." After the filter was set up, Lin discovered the "school's faculty members or administrators were regularly accessing pornographic Web sites using school computers." Well yeah, you can't do that kind of stuff at home. Your wife could find it!
Luckily the sites were mostly accessed over the summer when the kids weren't around, but when confronted Halloran reportedly "was not interested in using the Web content filter to monitor the productivity of personnel." And now the school is countersuing Lin for allegedly hacking into their computers and "likely stealing data." Like all of their precious porn account passwords?
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