Man sues Apple for his porn addiction

BeerWolf

This is getting ridiculous now, people can sue for just about over anything


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OU812

Interesting point however.

A safe filter installed by default which can only be unlocked by tech support would be a huge selling point for families, schools & businesses.

Apart from that, he's an idiot.

OU812

OU812 wrote: »

Interesting point however.

A safe filter installed by default which can only be unlocked by tech support would be a huge selling point for families, schools & businesses.

Apart from that, he's an idiot.

I really don't think it would. How many people are going to feel comfortable ringing a call centre to ask can they get porn on their laptop?


A little bit of accountability and less 'passing the buck' would see a lot of people right.

OU812

Plenty more on the net apart from porn that you don't want your family/ employees accessing.

A grading system for all sites is long overdue.

For example I don't want my kids accessing Facebook before they're 13.

A PIN unlock system for various levels of authority which pulls from a master list of sites held on a Microsoft/apple/ independent server. With the authentication software build in at an O/S level where is can't be disabled totally would be invaluable.

Theta

And how do you propose the grading system is regulated and what determines what a site falls into? The address? the links? the images? the stories? And who do you propose being in charge of such a system?

If you don't want your kids on Facebook then its your job as their parent to stop them accessing it using other means that you configure on your end. Its not the ISPs job to police what people do online, its a slippery slope.

gramar

Why doesn't he try and deal with his addiction instead of trying to get money off Apple?

If he was awarded anything he'd probably only use if for adult paysites anyway. The judge will probably throw it out it though before it gets that far.

kylith

If it wasn't Apple products it would have been HP, Dell or Acer. If it wasn't them it'd be dirty magazines. This guy's porn problem is his own doing, and he needs to take responsibility for it; Apple didn't make him download porn.

Quin_Dub

OU812 wrote: »

For example I don't want my kids accessing Facebook before they're 13.
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That's what Parent Control Apps and Firewall filters are for..

Not getting at you OU812, but there's far too much delegation of responsibility going on in society at present - Everybody wants to make it everybody elses problem.

If you don't want to do/watch/read something , then don't. If you want to prevent people under your care from doing the same , then you stop them.

Really gets on my wick when you hear people complaining about this website or that TV show that little Johnny was watching and then blaming the providers for it instead of taking responsibility and doing their jobs as parents.

And as for the guy suing Apple??? Sweet Jesus, he should lose his lawyers license for bringing such a ridiculous claim before the courts....

floggg

OU812 wrote: »

Plenty more on the net apart from porn that you don't want your family/ employees accessing.

A grading system for all sites is long overdue.

For example I don't want my kids accessing Facebook before they're 13.

A PIN unlock system for various levels of authority which pulls from a master list of sites held on a Microsoft/apple/ independent server. With the authentication software build in at an O/S level where is can't be disabled totally would be invaluable.

**** that, people need to take responsibility for their own kids themselves and stop blaming other people for the ****ty job they do as parents.

To quote Marshall Mathers:

You ****ing do-gooders, too bad you couldn't do good as parents

floggg

BeerWolf wrote: »

This is getting ridiculous now, people can sue for just about over anything


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You've always generally been able to bring a law suit on whatever grounds you want.

Winning said law suit is another matter. This ain't going anywhere.

Come back with your complaints if he actually won this bull**** case.

Quin_Dub wrote: »

And as for the guy suing Apple??? Sweet Jesus, he should lose his lawyers license for bringing such a ridiculous claim before the courts....

As long as the attorney representing the guy bringing the suit has advised him that this has zero chance he has done right by his client.

If he wants to pursue this bull**** then that's on him.

Though of course this is the states, so this is probably some no win no few bull**** which is fairly rampant there.

Quin_Dub

floggg wrote: »

You've always generally been able to bring a law suit on whatever grounds you want.

Winning said law suit is another matter. This ain't going anywhere.

Come back with your complaints if he actually won this bull**** case.




As long as the attorney representing the guy bringing the suit has advised him that this has zero chance he has done right by his client.

If he wants to pursue this bull**** then that's on him.

Though of course this is the states, so this is probably some no win no few bull**** which is fairly rampant there.

The guy is a lawyer himself , so nobody to advise him about the monumental stupidity of it all..

maximoose

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I really don't think it would. How many people are going to feel comfortable ringing a call centre to ask can they get porn on their laptop?

New 3 customers currently have to do that.

Janedoe10

He should have set up parental controls and let his better half have the password !

seamus

OU812 wrote: »

For example I don't want my kids accessing Facebook before they're 13.

Then don't let them. Probably the 3rd time I've said it on here, but until your children are 18, you own their devices, you control how they're used. It's not anyone else's responsibility to make sure that this is done for you.

If you bought your child a hunting rifle, you wouldn't let them keep it in their room, and you wouldn't let them go off and use it without training or supervision. And if they shot themselves you wouldn't put your hands up and say, "It's not my fault, nobody told me how to be safe". You'd either educate yourself or pay someone to assist you.

This is the fundamental thing that people miss with internet-enabled devices. Either the child cannot use it unless you're around, or you have the thing locked down to bejaysus.

I imagine the biggest flaw in all of these programs that parents install like netnanny, etc, is that they choose stupid passwords or they give the kids the password so they stop annoying them, or they let the kids see the password, etc etc.