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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.
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"It's a money grab from someone who wasn't doing their job. She left a computer around with no password. She had not been actively monitoring her child's internet activity. Now she wants tech companies to do the parenting for her."
Or the login came up automatically
It’s against the law to give access to porn to minors.
This is part of the propaganda drumbeat. We must protect children. Translation = everybody needs a unique Internet ID to access the Internet anywhere. They say it’s to protect the children. It’s actually to identify whistleblowers, and keep people from having anonymity to discuss things. This new unique ID for the Internet is equivalent to requiring all the authors of the federalist papers to sign with the real name.
Protect the children my ass. Just push for the unique Internet identity number comes from the same people who didn’t give a flying fornication about Epstein island, 300,000 kids being sex trafficked by Biden, all the tranny education in schools, they want the right to trans your kid without you knowing. But suddenly, they’re worried about kids seeing porn. Yeah sure.
So, were thses porn sites bookmarked by the mother and the kid discovered them?
What are the damages? Did the kid sprain his right wrist? Did he go blind?
Sounds as if by law the state requires such sites to verify site users’ age before providing access. If so, and if they didn’t, they ought to be penalized. People aren’t perfect, and parents can’t be everywhere at once. Was she careless? Yes. Were the porn sites required to verify her son’s age before providing access? Apparently yes. Her carelessness does not obviate the requirement that the porn sites comply with the law.
I have a different take on this.
I agree that the woman should have done more to prevent her child from accessing porn sites online.
However, her failure to do so does not relieve the porn sites of their legal obligations. Some sites have chosen to respect the rule of law and require proper identification and confirmation of age before delivering pornographic material. Other sites have chosen to ignore those laws.
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.
> ... Chaturbate.com, Jerkmate.com, ...
No comment, just LOL.
Exactly. If these pornography sites are going to ignore the law they should be made to pay the consequences.
So, were thses porn sites bookmarked by the mother and the kid discovered them?
From the article - “Q.R., using this old laptop, was able to access the internet and began searching for hardcore pornography.”
No, but he can no longer see his palm for all the new hair growth.
“It’s a money grab from someone who wasn’t doing their job. She left a computer around with no password. She had not been actively monitoring her child’s internet activity. Now she wants tech companies to do the parenting for her.”
Wonder who she votes for? If she even bothers to vote, that is.
What are the damages? Did the kid sprain his right wrist? Did he go blind?
That's why “junk” like this gets any attention.
1. Laptop should have been password protected.
2. There should have been restrictions in place what sites can be visited (various ways possible).
3. If it's an issue, the laptop itself should have been inaccessible.
If you can ban porn for whatever moral reasons, then we SHOULD start banning everything else which offends someone, somewhere, at some time.
-Anything which is too violent.
-Things which mock the prophet Mohamed
-Offends Feminists
-Offends or contradict environmentalists
-Offends LGBTQIA
-Offends race baiters and those looking for racism behind every door and under every rock.
-Anything which contradicts the Covid narrative
-Anything which contradicts the official Ukraine narrative
-In fact, far to many undocumented people have their feelings hurt and we need to clean that up too.
-I think anything which is dis and mis-information (as defined by some faceless bureaucrat which isn't accountable), which hurts anyone's feelings, contradicts the official US governments policies or stance on an issue, or mentions anything classified should be removed.
The Internet in the US should be restricted to MSNBC, CNN, websites on quilting and anything .gov.
Why not, we're not far from that today anyhow.
The Internet is already dead.
Yeah you see a checkbox that says “Yes, I’m over 18 years old”, what do you think any kid will do.
The Leisure Suit Larry games would ask trivia questions that anyone under 18 most likely wouldn’t be able to answer.
I have never heard of any of these sites, thankfully.
The use of her computer by her son was the problem.
The Internet is a wild place that needs parents to monitor.
I get the sentiment of that and I somewhat agree with it. But then I thought what if it was more of a direct relationship. Say, if he called a 1-900 # for sex talk and someone spoke directly to him alone. If that was my son I might feel like someone was directly putting this ideas into specifically his head, not just mass broadcasting it to anyone who views it. Thus I'd be out for vengeance.
But then on the other hand (no pun intended) I don't want to start a slippery (still no pun intended) slope of the govt dictating who can view/listen/read to what information.
The founding generation had ZERO understanding, intention or belief that the first amendment was meant to allow the creation or dissemination of explicit pornography. It was illegal (and constitutionally so) during the founders’ era and it is entirely constitutional for it to be illegal now. Any argument to the contrary is intellectually dishonest nonsense.
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