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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    One hates having to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but since the Cheeto government is working hard on prohibiting porn, one wonders about the timing for this. One wonders if this is just another paid asshole who happily uses their family to lie and cheat to get anti porn laws to pass

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    Use Arch. By the time the WiFi drivers are compiled, the boy would have transitioned to femboy.

    /s

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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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      My laptop is set up to unlock automatically if it’s on my Wi-Fi network. But if I take it out of the house and try and access it then I do have to use either a password or my fingerprint.

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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’m not sure how the websites could even be responsible. What can they do other than go “are you old enough to access this website”.

          The only other option would be for the government to implement some kind of ID system (not that I’m advocating for that you understand), but that would be the government’s responsibility not the individual websites.

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        There is a lot of harm that can come from children using the internet

        Look at Roblox or other pedophile chatrooms as an example

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            Given everything I’ve learned about Roblox over the years, if I had a kid I’d much rather find them watching Chaturbate than playing Roblox. To my knowledge, nobody has ever tried to kidnap, rape, or kill a child, or anyone for that matter, for watching Chaturbate.

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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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      Remember when people took ownership of their responsibilities?

      When was that, again?

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      Only when it suits them.

      When you try to do good things for kids, like free school lunches and sex education, then it’s all about “hurr durr it’s the parents’ responsibility”

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        “That is fantastic”. How are these fucking idiots still falling for these traitors to the poeple?

        Edit. I know it’s an old video, but it shows that they never even fucking tried to hide how much they hate the working class, and only view them as slavelabour.

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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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        Yeah because video recording equipment didn’t get invented until about 10 years ago.

        Who has heard of VCRs, not me, they sound like a myth

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        If you don’t want to see people publicizing their sex life, then you can stay off OnlyFans and Fetlife. It’s not difficult.

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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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          The oldest gen alphas were born 15 years ago. What 14-year-old influencer do you know about?

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

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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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        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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    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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        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.

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

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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.