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Further Lessons in Internet Porn
So, here’s the latest on Anna Nicole Smith: She’s still dead. But, the story is definitely in flux. Events are changing as we speak. But, the paternity of Anna Nicole’s child, Danielynn, is still up in the air. At this point, it’s been narrowed down to two seven men, including Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband, Smith’s former bodyguard, Howard K. Stern, a Bahamian immigration official, Larry Birkhead, Anna’s deceased former husband, J. Howard Marshall (don’t ask), and some random guy that walked by her hotel room during …
You know what? I don’t care. I don’t care who the father is. I don’t care what was in this woman’s refrigerator the day she died. I don’t give a shit who she was shtupping or not shtupping and I don’t care who ends up with the massive fortune that is presumably attached to that infant daughter of hers. I don’t care if the media makes a joke of her life, nor do I care if the media continues to (stupidly) compare it to that of Marilyn Monroe. Moreover, I don’t care what the cause of death was – drug overdose, TrimSpa, choking on her own vomit, or tripping over her hairdryer and landing on her noggin after she heard the doorbell ring. I have even given up my own self-righteous anger toward the mainstream media, for bilking her death for all the advertising dollars it could muster, and the gossip blogs, for taking it for an extra 20,000 page views a day.
I. Don’t. Care.
But, if Anna Nicole was featured on a pornographic website viewed by Jeffrey Brian Ziegler, in his locked work office, well, that’s when I start to care. (It seems unlikely that Ziegler was looking at nudie pics of Smith, however; he was more interested in “very, very young girls in various states of undress.”)
Updating a case we discussed last August, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has now affirmed a ruling denying Ziegler’s suppression motion, concluding that he did not have an expectation of privacy in his workplace, after the IT dude in his office discovered, through random monitoring of his Internet activity, that Ziegler was performing Google searches for “preteen girls” and “underage girls.”
After determining that there was a search or seizure by the government, the [9th Circuit] found that although the government had no warrant for the search of Ziegler’s office and computer, [his employer] had the authority to consent to the search without Ziegler’s permission.The company owned the premises and could validly consent to the search of Ziegler’s office, the panel said.
So, to recap: Anna Nicole, still dead. And you can get busted and imprisoned for checking out child porn at work.
