{"id":3489,"date":"2013-07-17T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:36:28","slug":"and-in-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2013\/07\/17\/and-in-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"And in other news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another case of &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to be responsible for my actions&#8221; a man in Tennessee is suing Apple for his online porn addiction. I saw a news piece on this the other day and thought it was a joke&#8230; Apparently not!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2013\/07\/17\/man-sues-apple-for-porn-addiction\/\">Here is a link to the article in Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"images.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/images4.jpeg\" alt=\"Images\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The short version is that this idiot, instead of accepting responsibility for his own actions. Has decided to tie up the courts time because he can&#8217;t keep his hands off his PeePee, or his eyeballs off the naughty websites via his internet connected device.<\/p>\n<p>More properly he should blame Apple, his internet provider, and the porn sites themselves. My guess is that he was using his iPhone from Sprint or AT&amp;T surfing porn all the time and has decided to blame Apple for his problem instead of just owning it.<\/p>\n<p>But Apple is the richest most easily identifiable target, especially if you&#8217;re hoping for a big out of court settlement.<\/p>\n<p>He says that Apple should install a content filter in it&#8217;s browser to block all internet porn. But says nothing of other browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc. This leads me to believe that he&#8217;s after nothing more than a big settlement. Why hasn&#8217;t he named Microsoft in his suit, or the United States Government, or CERN for creating the technology that is responsible for fueling his addiction?<\/p>\n<p>Porn sites ask if you&#8217;re 18, if the site is a pay site they use your credit card to verify it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This guys &#8220;Content Filter&#8221; is an impossible dream. The sites change URLs so often that even services specifically designed to locate and put these sites in a blacklist database can&#8217;t keep up. These services are 100% dedicated to the task 24\/7 and still fail to catch all the sites.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to effectively insure that someone acknowledges the &#8220;<em>Dangers of internet por<\/em>n&#8221; is to ship every device with a disabled browser. Then force the customer to go to the additional step of getting an unlock code.<\/p>\n<p>Which by the way, wouldn&#8217;t have stopped this guy from engaging in his addiction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you know you&#8217;re going to be an alcoholic before you have your first drink?<\/p>\n<p>By this guys logic all alcoholic beverage manufacturers should require that you sign a declaration of understanding that you might become addicted to their product. Imagine the fun that would be. Signing something every time you tried a new beer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that this guy gets thrown in jail for contempt of court, and wasting the courts time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another case of &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to be responsible for my actions&#8221; a man in Tennessee is suing Apple for his online porn addiction. I saw a news piece on this the other day and thought it was a joke&#8230; Apparently not! Here is a link to the article in Time The short version &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2013\/07\/17\/and-in-other-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And in other news&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,72,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-idiots","category-psycho-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10179,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/10179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}