Internet Scandals Live Forever

For politicians the Internet is not always a good thing. Whatever ends up on the Internet, doesn´t go way that easily if ever. Like in the case of the republican congressman Christopher Lee had to resign because of an Internet scandal.

Last february pictures he sent on an Internet site to a woman, of himself bare-chested along with flirtatious messages were revealed. Ofcourse he was married and the messages were not to his wife.

Icelandic politicians are not excluded from Internet mistakes. In 2008 a congressman named Bjarni Harðarson had to resign after accidentally sending an email to the media which was suppose to go his assistant. 

Just to take another example (and there were a lot to choose from) our readers might remember  the Taiwanese politician Chu Mei-feng who became famous in 2001 when a sex video of her circulated on the internet. It might not be to much suprise but ofcourse the man she was with was married. Chu decided to take advantage of the publicity she gained and released an autobiography the next year.


Hanna