The 14 year old’s mother left an old laptop in a closet and now alleges it’s adult sites’ problem that he watched porn.

A Kansas mother who left an old laptop in a closet is suing multiple porn sites because her teenage son visited them on that computer.

The complaints, filed last week in the U.S. District Court for Kansas, allege that the teen had “unfettered access” to a variety of adult streaming sites, and accuses the sites of providing inadequate age verification as required by Kansas law.

A press release from the National Center for Sexual Exploitation, which is acting as co-counsel in this lawsuit, names Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Techpump Solutions (Superporn.com), and Titan Websites (Hentai City) as defendants in four different lawsuits.

  • @lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
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    17113 days ago

    Imagine watching porn like everybody else and now your mom sues multiple billion dollar porn companies and everyone around you will know about her idea to do so…

    • @BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      At the schoolyard:

      So my mom commented on my tiktok dance, cringe!

      You think that’s cringe, I borrowed the laptop and now my mom is suing a bunch of porn companies.

    • @adhocfungus@midwest.social
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      When I was in 5th grade my mom tried to have a teacher fired for something and I was teased about it every day until I went to high school in a different town years later. This poor kid will never hear the end of it.

      • flandish
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        high school in the early 90’s. (trade school, granted) was great. doom on pcs after school with big 80’s era speakers echoing the shots in the halls. teachers who let us experiment. (electronics was my trade) with things like booze and “what happens if we fill every outlet with 12v electrolytic caps and turn the power back on?”

        learned a lot from that guy.

        he died early 2000’s from alcoholism. sigh.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      1213 days ago

      “As you can see from these logs, my son viewed ChixWithDix_69 three times on Tuesday, once on Wednesday and two more times on Thursday, and I can see from my smart home lightbulb logs from the bathroom that he viewed them to completion.”

    • @NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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      612 days ago

      These are boiler plate lawsuits by the religious right. No rational person would blame the porn sites for being a shit parent.

  • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    11913 days ago

    We laugh, but that mom is the kind of person that wholeheartedly supports the ‘You must provide proof of age to access adult sites’ laws that’re poised to ruin the internet.

    • And all because she’s too lazy and / or too incompetent to properly parent her child. If you really think something is dangerous for your kid, you’re the number one person responsible to keep them away from it.

        • @azimir@lemmy.ml
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          1413 days ago

          I consider that analogy somewhat different. Being able to leave your home to travel safely is a basic human right. Cars on roads are inherently dangerous, even if you try to be defensive as a pedestrian. You can be sitting in your grassy front yard and vehicles can come crashing in to kill you. That happens on a regular basis in the US. You can be walking on the sidewalk and have a car run you down. The vision of kids running into the street to be hit isn’t the only risk, merely existing is. Hell, there’s plenty of people killed in their home by cars crashing into their houses!

          Car crashes are the #2 reason for children’s deaths in the US (#1 is now guns, it was cars until about 3 years ago). It’s the #3 reason for adults to die after heart disease and cancer. Those stats are actually low balling it because we’re finding the noise and pollution from cars jacks up many of the other categories (including heart disease, cancer, dementia). Living by car roads is just inherently dangerous, regardless of how you try to teach your kids to avoid being run down in their own neighborhood.

          The government building car only infrastructure, I feel, is an immoral and murderous act against the public. It’s categorically different from the parental preference of whether your 14 year old manages to see some porn using a computer you bought on an Internet connection you installed.

          • @grue@lemmy.world
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            The government building car only infrastructure, I feel, is an immoral and murderous act against the public.

            It ought to be considered malpractice on the part of the civil engineers.

          • @Genius@lemmy.zip
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            The government should be paying millions of dollars to the family every time someone dies of car.

    • @happydoors@lemm.ee
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      111 days ago

      I believe lawsuits like this are purposefully manufactured to try and elevate this narrative. She certainly wants the world to operate like what you bring up. The more stories like this pop-up, the more conservative parents will be scared and push for legislation.

  • nicgentile
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    10313 days ago

    Her logic is, “I was a bad neglectful parent so now you must pay.” Nonsense.

  • @Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    The right wings infatuation with the government needing to parent for them. Tucker opening to an audience with “Daddy’s coming home” and talking about how the left thinks of the government as being the nanny state (how much protection??)

    Eminem had it right, “shouldn’t you have been watching him? Apparently you ain’t parents”

      • @mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1713 days ago

        The porn ban is more focused on banning trans people. They have been systematically redefining LGBTQ+ people as pornographic, especially trans people. So if they manage to ban porn, they can use that to wipe any and all LGBTQ+ representation. Gay romance novel? Banned cuz it’s porn. Two female characters happened to hold hands? Banned cuz it’s porn. Trans people existing in public? Banned cuz it’s porn.

      • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        913 days ago

        Well, they want to ban LGBTQIA+ people. This is just the infrastructure they intend to use.

        Once it’s in place, they’ll simply declare any media about people they hate “obscene”.

  • @cmeu@lemmy.world
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    So if it weren’t a web site… would she be able to sue 7-11 if the kid found a playboy someone else in her house bought?

    Could she sue them if the employee was doing their duty, but a kid broke 7-11’s rule, snuck around and stole one?

    The site was illegally breached (accessed in violation of their terms) and the kid accessed content not appropriate for them.

    How is the site liable? Doesn’t dmca precedent here say the kid is at fault for bypassing access controls?

    • @OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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      1212 days ago

      She should have used parental controls or I dunno, maybe password protected that laptop? Oh no, don’t blame the parent! It’s always someone else’s fault!!!

  • @OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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    Nothing is the parent’s fault. Blame the teachers. Blame the neighbors. Blame the corporations. Blame everyone but yourselves.

    Remember when people took ownership of their responsibilities?

    This generation of iPad-parenting is getting out of control. What do parents do nowadays anyway?

    • The victim is probably the porn industry in this case. An unsecured laptop on an unsecured network is a porn machine. They had a porn machine in their house the whole time. This makes about as much sense as suing Jack Daniels because your kid got drunk when you went away and didn’t lock up your booze.

      • madjo
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        “Oh no, my little girl found our unsecure laptop and used it to enjoy porn using Chaturbate.”

        Yeah I still don’t see how it’s the platform’s problem that that mom failed to lock the laptop. And I feel really bad for her kid, for having such a Karen for a mom.

        • @bdjukeemgood@lemm.ee
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          I didn’t say it was the platforms problem. The topic was how the boy wasn’t a victim. So you go on to say that the girl WOULD be a victim (to her mother) proving my point.

          • madjo
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            The boy would definitely also be his mom’s victim, but please note what I said: “I feel really bad for her kid for having a Karen for a mom.”
            That you read that to only mean “girl” is not my problem. As far as I know, her kid is not a girl, but a boy.

            • @bdjukeemgood@lemm.ee
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              It’s funny because we don’t even disagree. Your first comment isn’t even related to the topic and your second is arguing a moot point. But go off I guess.

              • madjo
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                It depends on what you consider the crime to be. Is it the mom outing her kid’s porn habits or the kid using a platform in the way it’s meant to be used, but not by kids of his age?

                If it’s the latter, I’d argue that is a victimless crime. If it’s the former, then yes, the kid (male or female) would be the victim.

                • @bdjukeemgood@lemm.ee
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                  Well I’d hate to assume what OP meant by “crime” but whatever it was certainly wasn’t victimless.

                  I don’t think either of your options for “crime” here make sense. The root problem isn’t the porn site. Or “outing” the kid. It’s that kids probably don’t need unrestricted access to the entire internet. All mom had to do was put a password on the laptop.

      • @VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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        1413 days ago

        Like, a girl jaggin’ in the closet and daddy sues the porn company?

        Sits the same for me?

        What am I missing here?

      • @LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe
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        1413 days ago

        I’m not getting your point. Why does it matter if it’s a girl enjoying porn?

        This Karen probably won’t explain sex to her kids, so they have to get info in other ways.

  • Laptops are like guns. If you leave them unsecured, you are responsible if your kid gets a hold of them. Who even has a laptop without a password these days.

    • @bollybing@lemmynsfw.com
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      Guns are way more dangerous though. A 14 year old watching some porn is hardly life ruining. How many 14 year olds haven’t watched porn? If they’ve got access to the Internet they’re going to find it.

      Its much better to actually properly teach your kids about sex and porn so that it doesn’t fuck them up, than to try and protect them by restricting access to it.

  • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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    2413 days ago

    shes the one paying for the isp, and should be monitoring his internet usage. just shut it off at certain times of the day when your not home, or when hes not doing hw.

  • mechoman444
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    2412 days ago

    I would have sued the laptop manufacturer for making a device that doesn’t have adequate parental controls.

    If that doesn’t work I’m suing the person that made the table they put the laptop on for not providing a failsafe to where you can’t put a laptop that can access porn sites.

    • @thatradomguy@lemmy.world
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      It’s honestly cringey to me thinking how it’s possible that the gen Alphas of tomorrow are likely to be in a timeline where their parents could very likely have porn floating on the internet. It’s just so f’d up to think about but my god I don’t get why people have this fascination with publicizing their sex life. It’s so gross. Ew ew