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.
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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.
Nothing you said changes the fact that the history, text and tradition of the US Construction contains nothing that prevents the law from banning indecency.
The Construction is like a contract. It means what the parties who entered into it meant and understood it to mean. We don’t get to write new stuff into it without amending it the proper way. The idea that the framers intended the right to free speech enumerated in the first amendment to grant the right to deliver depictions of graphic sexual acts to children is ludicrous.
The parent in this case is ludicrous.
No one delivered things of a sexual nature to children. This is 100% on the parents.
1. The parents are responsible for who has physical access to the laptop.
2. The parents are responsible for not having the laptop password protected or sharing this with the kid.
3. The parents are responsible for not having a firewall in place, or restricted search filters etc.
4. The parents are at fault that the kid “likely” searched for these things, or opened a closed browser, or bookmark...
A liberal will argue, that to protect our children we need to ban guns.
Hypothetically: I the parent left a loaded gun on top of my end table in the bedroom in plain sight (physical access), I never taught the kid about gun safety, I didn’t have a gun lock (password), and when the kid kills himself the liberal will blame the gun, not me the reckless parent. Same problem.
The first ten amendments are supposed to be “unalienable” and they use terms like “shall not.” These first ten amendments are supposed to be hard rules, absolutes, timeless. These ten amendments are what made America special, what made the American a citizen and not a subject.
Today all ten of these amendments have been abridged.
Can you name me one of the first ten amendments which has not been abridged?
Sadly, the culprits in destroying this CONTRACT between the people and their government was destroyed just as much by so-called conservatives as by socialist left wing idiots. Example, Bush W. and his Patriot Act which is in typical government newspeak anything but patriotic.
For many so called conservatives, all you need to do is say “national security, public safety,” or mention their idea of “morals” and you can $hit on the Constitution.
That is no different than a libtard that will strip you of all your rights so they can save the planet and create an egalitarian utopia in their socialist fantasy world.
True liberalism is about maximizing liberty - a nobel cause but which has little in common with modern liberals.
True conservativism is about a traditional Constitutional view and enforcing this document, not trying to redefine or circumvent it.
At the heart of the US Constitution are limits to government powers (which everyone wants to expand today when it benefits them, until it’s them on the side that pays or gets their rights infringed upon) and decentralization.
That’s what I said. Your disagreement is with doorgunner69
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It's funny how people love to claim how the Constitution doesn't specifically mention something by name when it's something they want to go after, but then feel like their rights are trampled on when others do the exact same thing to them.
How about we don't crap all over the US Constitution, from the left to save the environment, create a social safety net and equality between the races, sexes and sexual orientations; or the right for national security, public safety, or common decency / morality?
If you don't want a kid to see porn, keep them off the computer, or keep the computer off the web, or install a password and only let them use it with supervision, or install a free firewall to block such sites, restrict the search engine to safe searches, don't fill up the bookmarks, browser history and cookies from such sites, or best of all teach the kid not to seek out such material. I have been writing back and fourth with you for a greater part of this day on a computer with no filtering and no restrictions what so ever. Do you know how much porn was delivered to me? Zero.
Everyone loves to save the children, or to use them as victims: Ryan White (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White). He was a hemophiliac that was discriminated against because he had AIDS. The Homo community of course took this innocent child (who likely got AIDS from contaminated blood because of a homo) and used him to push their agenda. Ironic twist.
Today you have a lot of folks that are on a moral crusade against what they perceive as porn and they also love to use children for their cause. Lets not pretend porn gets shot at your face when you turn on a computer.
This makes sense: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/19/trump-signs-take-it-down-act-criminalizing-deepfake-and-revenge-porn-00357151 People are getting hurt (there are damages), it's against their will, etc. This is someone trying to hurt someone else intentionally. But the article of discussion in this thread does not make sense. There already are many safeguards in place or are available and if a kid is exposed to porn on the web it's a parental issue, not some porn sites fault.
Personal funny side bar on this topic. I once was in the Army many years ago. I got deployed many times and was interested in the news and current events since these impacted my life. While in a training area in 2002 and training for my next deployment, on a government laptop, on duty, I made the horrible mistake of navigating to the site www.Whitehouse.com (not www.whitehouse.gov). I was blasted with popups coming at me so fast that I literally couldn't close them as fast as they were popping up. The female anatomy was on display in it's full glory on my laptop. Those days are long gone.
Today, you have to basically look for porn and in many cases have to get around obstacles in order to get to such a site. Employers, public access points have firewalls, the searches are restricted on the machine itself, etc etc etc. If it were 2002 I would agree with you, it was possible back then for that to happen. Today, not so much, unless you have a parent that simply takes zero effort to prevent this. It's just the typical game of trying to use "the children" as an argument to go after something.
I guess I wasn’t clear. I was agreeing completely with you.
(My New Years resolution is to donate the majority of them to the local computer recycle center this spring, along with the mass of monitors, keyboards, Etherswitches, and so forth.)
So sorry! I see I replied to the wrong post. I was trying to respond to someone else.
If you are worried about your photo id being hacked you can always choose to not visit porn sites where it is legally required.
For a company to say “the user can circumvent this legally required regulation so we are just not going to bother with it” is no excuse for failing to follow the law.
It would be as if a bar said “well underage kids can get fake IDs so we aren’t going to bother carding anyone”.
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