Posted on 05/21/2025 9:59:59 AM PDT by simpson96
A woman from Kansas has sued a number of porn websites after her teenage son found her old laptop in a closet and used it to visit the explicit sites. According to the lawsuit, the sites in question failed to institute appropriate guardrails to keep young users away from the adult content.
404 Media originally reported on the litigation, which was filed with the help of The National Center on Sexual Exploitation Law Center (NCOSE), an organization that focuses on a variety of sex crimes, including sex trafficking and child sexual abuse material. The suit lists as defendants Chaturbate.com, Jerkmate.com, Titan Websites, and Techpump Solutions (also known as Superporn.com). A statement from NCOSE explains the mother’s grievances thusly:
Q.R. is a 14-year-old minor child who resides in Kansas with his mother, Jane Doe. Jane Doe was vigilant in monitoring Q.R.’s devices to prevent his exposure to harmful material during this important developmental stage of his life. However, on August 12, 2024, Q.R. found an old laptop that was stored forgotten in a closet. Unfortunately for Q.R., it was still in working condition. Q.R., using this old laptop, was able to access the internet and began searching for hardcore pornography.
The lawsuit hinges on the claim that the sites should have instituted age-verification mechanisms to comply with a recently passed Kansas law that mandates authentication for adult sites. A statement from the NCOSE claims that the litigation represents the “first lawsuits filed in the U.S. that challenge alleged violators of age verification laws.”
“It is unreasonably dangerous for these pornography websites to provide this product which they know is harmful to children, that children are drawn to access, and do access, without employing age verification as required by Kansas law. Our plaintiff deserves every measure of justice,” a statement from the NCOSE says.
Gizmodo reached out to the defendants, with the exception of Titan Websites, as it wasn’t immediately clear how to contact the company.
The NCOSE’s website shows it has also assisted with lawsuits against XVideos, another prominent porn site, as well as against Twitter, which it accuses of breaking a federal sex trafficking statute.
GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime, Following Project 2025 Playbook
The modern anti-porn movement has popped up in mostly conservative states and has sought to highlight the harmful psychological impact that pornography may have on young people. Over the past decade, more than a dozen states have passed age-verification laws designed to curb youth access to porn, much of which is still being challenged in court. It’s unclear how effective these laws can actually be, since using a VPN should presumably allow a user to pretend as if they are accessing the websites from a location that is unregulated by such laws.
LOL
Of course Playboy was fairly tame compared with what is out there now.
Yeah, Hugh Heffener was careful about the posed pictures he had in his magazine. Today’s porn is crazy and abusive towards women.
However, on August 12, 2024, Q.R. found an old laptop that was stored forgotten in a closet
A laptop Should, by law, be stored in a safe....
It’s easier to access porn than it us to buy cigs and booze.
I found them rather exciting. Lovely artwork + imagination.
I only got it for the articles.
The concern about the effect of porn on young minds is not overblown. Early and repeated exposure to porn by young people rewires the brain as it relates to stimulus, arousal and gratification. It has become such an issue that large numbers of young men have difficulty having a normal sexual relationship. Don’t believe me? Watch the commercials and ads for ED medications these days and see who they are directed toward. Increasingly they are directed toward young men in their 20s and 30s. Bluechew is one that comes to mind.
I agree with every word in that statement.
The world isn’t your babysitter...
I was not aware of that.
Although I have have heard that testosterone has been dropping in men for generations, and they are suggesting that it has got a lot worse recently, including after covid19.
Seriously, what teenage boy doesn’t look at nudie mags? My boys did, wife went nuts, I just laughed, at least it wasn’t gay porn, so I figured they were OK.
With no more than 50 keyboard and mouse clicks, that woman’s son could find the most vile, depraved, sinful acts to ever be performed on the face of the earth and watch them an unlimited amount of times for free in 4K.
However, if he tried to find Kanye West’s latest song, he would search for hours without being able to hear it.
Who controls the internet?
If I sold gave away free beer and someone's 14 year old walked up to my stand and I gave him some...I would be liable for that and I should be held civilly and criminally responsible.
As it relates to adults, porn is an extremely harmful activity to all of the participants involved (even the businessmen who make the money off of it). That being said, so is beer ,so are cigarettes, so are lottery tickets, so is gambling, so are doughnuts. etc....
You can't prevent adults from hurting themselves except by explaining to them the dangers and hoping they make the right choice.
It was scandalous, even immoral, to show your ankles as a woman in Victorian times 1837 -1901.
The very definition of “pornography” and so called “decency” changes a lot over time.
The idea that any of this is new, is simply put, made up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions
The struggle between decency (whatever that is for the day) and those breaking the social norms has always been the case, even in other places.
The Vatican Sistine chapel is full of naked people, and that was fine at that time although there too you had conflict between different ideas of what’s considered decent: https://www.througheternity.com/en/blog/art/nudity-and-controversy-in-the-sistine-chapel.html
For the Greeks making naked pictures and sculptures was fine, you just had to give them a small penis, since a big penis would be vulgar: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-ancient-greek-sculptures-small-penises
But then the Romans thought the penis was a symbol of power and good luck, and the bigger the better. They had frescas, statues, walkway pavers, even doorway entries were adorned with giant penis in places like Pompei.
None of this is new.
But, don’t be part of the problem.
—For liberals, it’s ok to crap all over the US Constitution when it comes to environmentalism and social justice.
—For many self professed conservatives, it’s ok to crap all over the US Constitution when it comes to national defense, their idea of morality and public safety.
Both want to throw the US Constitution out of the window, they just have different values/priorities. The “conservative” wants to ban an image of a nipple to protect a kid, and the liberal wants to ban your guns to protect a kid. Both are full of $hit.
What does a website use to obtain age verification? Is it only an affirmative answer to a question like “Are you older than XX”, or does it require delivering up a “photo ID of some sort??? How does it work, or does not NOT work?
Wonder if she is okay with putting pornographic books in libraries
“If I were to let my young child wander off on his own and he went through the neighborhood and ended up going into a bar, I should definitely get in trouble for not taking care of my child. But if he was served a drink at that bar, then the bar should be in trouble as well.”
How does such a website know/obtain not-easy-to-forge-dispute “age verification”.
If they require uploading a picture ID with date of birth, then isn’t the person risking compromise of that data on another website that might be hacked??
What the minor did on the laptop does not imply they needed or used anything the mother “bookmarked”. They just started with an Internet search for porn and found results.
There are very obvious ways to identiy what is porn images and what is not. And someone seeking a claim their art is not porn should be able to get an unbiased ruling and relief if wrongly labeled porn.
Then: My preference is for all porn to be moved to websites with an XXX suffix, and then parental controls on/in an Infernet browser able to block access to .xxx websites/pages.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.