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.

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    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.

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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.

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    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.

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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?

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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

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        gen alpha are obssesed with being influencers, im not kidding. and alot of reports of them using AI to do all thier essay writing or work.

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        Reminded of that story of the mother who sent her (adult) son nudes to spread around his workplace and advertise her onlyfans for her.

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    As a parent, this trend in offloading all parental responsibilities onto the people around us is infuriating. Guns, cars, drugs, porn, why is any of this an issue, just fucking parent.

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      It’s been a thing since forever, too. People like this have been hounding TV and radio stations about their content since the very start. And that’s with FCC censorship in play, too.

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      Its not entirely new.

      in the 80s parents wanted to offload parenting onto the TV.

      in the 90s parents wanted to offload parenting onto teachers and babysitters.

      aughts parents wanted to offload parenting onto computers and video games.

      now parents want to offload parenting onto cellphones and tablets. Cant tell you how many kids, even super young kids, I see with their faces absolutely glued to a cellphone or tablet. Even in my own family. Kids as young as 5 had their own smart phones, with completely unsupervised use.

      and the one common thread in all of that, is how the parents never take responsibility for the damage their unparented, unsupervised children do or suffer.

      Its always everyone elses fault. Its never mommy and daddy, who cant be bothered to give little Timmy even 5 minutes of their day, who is at fault.

      I just don’t understand why people have or keep their kids if they hate them and don’t want to be bothered by them. It’d be less traumatic for a child to be given up for adoption and end up with a loving family, than to be raised by these types of people.

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      It’s all related isn’t it? People are too busy and tired to parent, but society pushes/shames them into having kids. So the result is people having kids and pushing society to parent them, then getting upset that this kind of parenting doesn’t work.

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        Yeah, that’s usually their “right” as a parent to enforce what does / doesn’t get taught in their school.

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          And their right as a parent always supersedes your right as a parent I’ve noticed.

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        Folks are down voting you because you are stating inane bullshit that doesn’t pertain to anything anyone is talking about. Also bringing up Jill Biden for some fucking reason when she also has nothing to do with anything.

        Piss off in the desert and use drugs cut with turpentine with the rest of the gormless hippies.

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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?

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      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!!!

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    A this an actual law suit by an actual person? Isn’t the person named Jane doe or something?

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    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…

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

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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.

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      “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.”

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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.

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        The more I think about it the less funny it is.

        A particularly vulnerable teen would consider suicide, from the bullying if not the embarrassment.

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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”

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        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”.

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        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.

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    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.

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      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.

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          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.

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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.

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            The government should be paying millions of dollars to the family every time someone dies of car.