B.C. politician unintentionally directs public to teen porn website

Now, this is what you would call a 'big oops.'

A respected Liberal MLA running for re-election in British Columbia has inadvertently been directing supporters to a hard-core porn website.

According to CBC News, Linda Reid's campaign website is located at LindaReid.ca. Unfortunately, her personal Facebook page and website had listed her campaign website as www.lindareid.com — a website filled with pictures of what appears to be teenage girls partaking in graphic sexual activities.

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At first, Reid suggested she had been hacked, but the Liberal Party later admitted that it was more likely that a campaign staffer made a simple typo. Indeed, lindareid.com, has been registered and owned by the same person since 2010.

Reid shouldn't feel too bad — as we move forward in the digital age, web domain gaffes are likely to become more commonplace in Canada's political sphere.

We've already seen a couple of them:

Tom-foolery in Manitoba:

During the 2011 provincial election in Manitoba, that province's Conservative party purchased the domain name todaysndp.com as a counter to the NDP's official website which was located at todaysndp.ca.

Todaysndp.ca was your typical campaign website whereas the dot com site highlighted the NDP government's failures.

"It's all fair. [The NDP] didn't protect it," a Tory campaign manager told QMI Agency.

"I think I paid about $15 for it. Anybody could have purchased it. I think it was a slip on their part."

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A lapsed government website promoting foreign prostitutes:

In November 2011, the Ottawa Citizen reported that Transport Canada didn't renew their Centennial of Flight domain name.

A private company took it over and started to advertise prostitutes in Istanbul, Turkey and Washington, D.C.. The real kicker was that the website was still linked to by several federal department websites.

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