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[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 292 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

“Q.R., using his mother’s old laptop, had unfettered access to the internet and began searching for hardcore pornography,” says the court. His mom claims this led to “pain, suffering, disability, disfigurement, and mental anguish; psychological injury; past and future love of enjoyment and pleasure of living.”

It's not the internet making your son feel those things, it's you.

[–] Chowtime3688@sopuli.xyz 153 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Why is the mom not responsible for giving her kid internet access.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 55 points 17 hours ago

Well she is, but also the law states she can get compensation if an adult site doesn't age restrict minors.

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Negligent is the word you're looking for. And her child should be removed and put in a safe environment. At the least she should have to pay a fine and attend classes and child protection should make visits.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 113 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Disfigurement? Kid's doing something wrong.

[–] False@lemmy.world 59 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

That's truly some advanced-level porn.

[–] MrTomS@lemmy.world 40 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Internet told him to break both his arms.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 points 16 hours ago

Mom is mad he doesn't have energy left for her.

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[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago

Mom never supported any kind of sexual education and definitely refuses any kind of healthy and mature conversation with the poor kid.

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[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 55 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

His mom claims this led to “......; past and future love of enjoyment and pleasure of living.”

So the mom is suing Chaturbate, et al., because she thinks they're going to cause her son to enjoy life in the future? Is that the mental gymnastics going on here?

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 33 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's just poorly written pseudo-legalese, and it's intended to mean that he will be unable to enjoy life in the future because of the psychological damage that poor is doing to him (unrealistic expectations and mental harm, et cetera).

While porn addiction and unrealistic ideas of beauty and sex are genuinely real things that happen, the way to prevent that is with frank, open discussions about sex and pornography, not trying to prevent your 14 year old from masturbating. I was a 14 year old boy at one point, and lemme tell you, nothing could stop me from masturbating. Nothing. It's just not going to happen. Kids will find ways to find porn, and if somehow we completely do away with it entirely (again, won't happen), they'll find new ways, and they'll read and write erotica or get into hentai or whatever. This woman is insane, Kansas is insane, and so are all the other states imposing this bullshit

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, he's Disabled and Disfigured now?

...What was he doing?

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 233 points 17 hours ago

“Mom” isn’t doing this unless she’s uber rich. Someone is bankrolling her to try to set precedent.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 100 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine gooning so hard that your mom makes you famous.

[–] intheformbelow@lemmy.world 49 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

She just didn't want him to jerk off to her on chaturbate. She performs there regularly as "Giantmagacnt"

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I want to believe this is satire but fuck I will not be fact checking.

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Dude gunna have to be homeschooled until graduation.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Better not break his arms.

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 92 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (5 children)

Jeebus, I need backup plans for Friday nights.

Page 8 & 9 of the court filing (not the article):

Through this time, Q.R. was able to access chaturbate.com on thirty different instances: [...] seven instances on August 30, 2024 [...]

Bruh, make sure to hydrate.

Page 13, absolutely fascinating to me that "prays for judgement" is stated and whether that is at all common:

Plaintiff prays for judgment against Defendants in an amount in excess of $75,000.00 for: a. actual damages resulting from Q.R.’s access to material that is harmful to minors, including but not limited to past medical expenses, future medical expenses, past and future lost services and disability, past and future pain, suffering, and disability [...]

Page 15, looking for more details on alleged "disfigurement":

As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ negligence, Plaintiff has suffered and will continue in the future to suffer the following damages: a. Pain, suffering, disability, disfigurement, and mental anguish [...]

It goes on to talk about pornography causing a shift in perspective on sex and possibly leading to addiction. Not finding anything specific on the alleged "disfigurement".

I'm left to assume poor Q.R. will have to deal the rest of his life with the friction burns caused by jerkin' it 7+ times on August 30, 2024.

His mom also demanded a jury trial, so Q.R. can rest easy knowing 12 strangers will hear about his friction burns and give it the serious attention due.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 36 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

This was so hilariously stated - and your comment is quite thought-provoking.

I can't imagine how this poor teenager will think of his mother over time.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago

I can't imagine how this poor teenager will think of his mother over time.

Not well, this much is certain.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 12 hours ago

Bet that kid is counting the days until he's legally an adult and can get away from her.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 29 points 16 hours ago

As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ negligence, Plaintiff has suffered and will continue in the future to suffer the following damages: a. Pain, suffering, disability, disfigurement, and mental anguish […]

More likely a direct result of his mom being a fucking psycho.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Page 13, absolutely fascinating to me that "prays for judgement" is stated

It's not a "prayer" in the religious sense.

"Prayer" in a court filing is what the plaintiff asks the court to do to resolve the case.

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[–] madjo@feddit.nl 69 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

His first name starts with a Q?! That poor kid, imagine getting your porn preference blasted into the news by your mom and then you also have a Q in your name. Mom should be sued for child abuse

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 28 points 9 hours ago

I hope those aren't his real initials because it seems like there's more than enough information to identify him between the article and complaint filing. Poor kid doesn't deserve to be dragged into this.

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I don't know why they bother censoring it we all know he's called Quentin.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 16 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

In the old world maybe. Today's tragedeigh naming means it could be anything. Qristofer. Enjoy.

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[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago (6 children)
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[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 16 points 6 hours ago

Mum wanted to make it everyone else's problem that she can't have a frank discussion about sex with her own son so probably been making poor judgements all the way through

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[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 67 points 6 hours ago (15 children)

I don’t understand how these kids get caught. They gotta be really slow or something.

I was caught 0 times as a teenager. My mom never found my porn.

My brother was caught a few times. My cousin was caught in the damn car on a family vacation with OTHER PEOPLE IN THE CAR just yanking his noodle under a blanket.

I was so cautious as a kid. I guess because I was caught and thoroughly shamed when I was about 4 years old. Maybe that’s why I never got caught when I was old enough for it to matter. That shame gave me a lifelong lesson.

I had a motion detecting toy dinosaur at the bottom of the stairs. When someone approached the stairs it would go, “raaaaaawr, raaaaaawr” and I’d be sitting at the foot of the bed reading a book by the time someone got upstairs.

If they suspected anything, didn’t matter. I was reading.

When I got high speed internet (as it was called in those days) I threw out the tapes and magazines. I had a separate hard drive I’d plug into my computer juuuuuust in case, and since I was always messing with and tearing into my computer, my mom never found anything. That drive had Linux, my mom was scared of Linux.

Now that I think about it, holy shit they fucked me up haha.

When they caught me as a little guy my mom said, “oh shamy, shamy.” And my dad said, “you keep messing with that thing and it’ll fall off and you’ll turn into a girl.” They spent the whole day giving me that, “oh you shameful creature” look.

Haha, man. Wow.

Yeah, maybe my people just messed me up.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"you keep messing with that thing and it'll fall off and you'll turn into a girl"

On one hand, fucking horrible thing to say on a child

On the other.. probably would not have the effect they would intend on a certin chunk of the population lmao

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[–] quant@leminal.space 16 points 6 hours ago

You had enough motivation and technical knowledge, that's why. Most people don't even bother having separate storage with dual booting.

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 52 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I have never heard of most of these and I’m a decent degenerate.

[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 17 points 14 hours ago

Never stop to discover new things.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

I have only heard of one of those ans im a furry. Im a professional degenerate

[–] False@lemmy.world 43 points 17 hours ago

"Hello maam, your son clicked the prompt stating he wasn't in Kansas. Our service is not offered in that state. Goodbye."

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 39 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Guess he'll have to do it like we used to back in the day: lock himself in the bathroom with a Victoria's Secret catalogue.

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[–] Cyclist@lemmy.world 38 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My favorite part:

His mom claims this led to “pain, suffering, disability, disfigurement, and mental anguish; psychological injury; past and future love of enjoyment and pleasure of living.”

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You mean he wasn't born on January 1st 1970?

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

Ah yeah, that's what sex on the first date means

[–] Puzzlehead@reddthat.com 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't he have to put in a fake birth date if it asked him to verify his age?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 45 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

conservatives are pushing for full ID submission.

[–] killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 hours ago

i had left my VPN on in a location in the US and was shocked that i had to enter in ID to visit a sire.

i dont even have to give my ID to government websites who the hell is doung that

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[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 24 points 16 hours ago

I feel bad for her kid. Everyone is going to hate him for this.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee 23 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This is a test case. There are some deep Christofascist pockets behind her.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

That teen needs to drop the mom in an old-age home

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 13 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the teen isn't enjoying life having to deal with his judgmental helicopter mother. But that's not the porn sites fault.

Teenage boys like to look at naked women a lot, and will go to great lengths to obtain said material, legal or not, due to the 1 2 punch of raging hormones and not fully developed frontal lobes. News at 11 for the mother of the year over in Kansas that hasn't been paying attention to what teenage boys are usually like for all of recorded history and beyond.

I can't imagine what she would do if he happened to be into trans porn or God forbid gay porn. The horror. She would be the laughing stock of the garden club among her equally uptight peers. Would someone please think of all of the adult embarrassments in these times of teenagers finding themselves! /s

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