'I was tagged, so I was just browsing' : Nutt
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A red-faced Democrat Party MP, a son of former party leader Banyat Bantadtan, yesterday admitted that he accidentally viewed a pornographic picture during a parliamentary meeting on Wednesday.
Nutt Bantadtan admitted that he had used his mobile phone to look at a porn image during the meeting deliberating on the charter amendment bill.
The picture of Nutt watching the picture on his mobile phone was widely distributed among Facebook and Twitter users. Nutt was caught viewing the photo at almost the same time as a porn image was accidentally shown on a monitor inside the assembly hall on Wednesday.
Nutt told the parliamentary meeting yesterday that he was the MP whose picture had been distributed among members of social networking sites.
He said his friends always sent or tagged photos to him for checking and that sometimes they sent photos just to tease him. He said he had opened the picture simply to check what it was and closed it immediately after seeing it. He said it was a picture from his friend and was sent to tease him.
After the revelation during yesterday’s debate on charter amendment, Nutt told a press conference that he was checking the picture he had received from his friends via Facebook and was about to delete it when his picture was captured.
“The journalist who took the picture must have known well that I didn’t look at the picture for a long time,” he said.
He said he knew it was inappropriate to use the phone during a parliamentary meeting but he usually checked for updates from his friends and local people through social media and phone applications.
On Wednesday, a porn picture popped up on the projection screen during the parliamentary meeting and brought criticism from parliamentarians. The picture was shown for five seconds then blacked out and redisplayed three times. Nutt’s picture was taken during the period.
Officials from the Information and Communications Technology Ministry yesterday investigated the controller room for an hour. Chuwit Kamolvisit, Rak Prathet Thai party-list MP, urged Parliament to renovate the controller room as it was very old. He said he did not think the porn picture was the work of a hacker as claimed. He also accused several MPs of misbehaviour.
“Some raised their legs and put them on the desk. Some even slept and snored. And some were seen watching betting lists,” he said.
