MTN porn ring - double standards?

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I read in Noseweek at CNA a story about a "porn ring" at MTN South Africa.

The story goes that MTN South Africa was having slow network and email response times so they sent a couple of techies to investigate who then discovered it was due to a couple of users with very large user accounts on the MTN servers. On investigation they discovered that these accounts contained large amounts of pornography and this pornography was being distributed between senior MTN employees. The only person in the porn ring mentioned by name was Paul Newman general manager of Retail Channels. The other seem to have been part of the MTN sales team. The article also mentions it was not a male only ring but that 2 white women were part of it.

Initially action was taken against them but after a new group Managing Karel Pienaar joined he reinstated them.
The only person who was then dismissed was the one in the group that had child pornography in his user account.

Now the article also mentioned that staff in the call centre have in the past been caught with pornography and dismissed because of it. So isn't it double standards that senior staff are allowed to keep their jobs?

http://www.noseweek.co.za/article/2683/Naughty-MTN-boys-forgiven
 
Calling it a "porn ring" seems sensational. More like a shared folder on the network surely?

that had child pornography in his user account

So the investigator looked at all the media?
 
Calling it a "porn ring" seems sensational. More like a shared folder on the network surely?

So the investigator looked at all the media?
It was internal. No investigators involved. Just disciplinary processes.

Porn ring was the title on the front cover of the magazine and also the title of the article.I would imagine if it was causing performance problems on MTN internal network that it wasn't just a shared folder but videos shared by e-mail.
 
AFAIK there is a duty to report incidencts of child porn. So... why has MTN not reported it?
 
It was internal. No investigators involved. Just disciplinary processes.

Porn ring was the title on the front cover of the magazine and also the title of the article.I would imagine if it was causing performance problems on MTN internal network that it wasn't just a shared folder but videos shared by e-mail.

I was refering to

The story goes that MTN South Africa was having slow network and email response times so they sent a couple of techies to investigate]

Internal probably means their LAN and mail, not the cellular network.
 
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