Man Sues Apple Because Its Devices Allow Him to Surf Porn

Just when Apple was starting recover from the legal blow dealt to it over e-book price-fixing, they’re getting mired in another legal drama. However, I don’t think that they have to worry too much about this one. A Nashville lawyer is suing Apple for facilitating his addiction to online pornography.

The plaintiff (and attorney) in the lawsuit is Chris Sevier, a 36-year-old man who was recently arrested on charges of stalking country singer John Rich and has his own Model Mayhem page.

In addition to suing Apple for damages over the damage to his personal life caused by his Apple facilitated porn addiction, including his wife leaving him, he’s trying to get Apple to introduce a “safe mode” which would be a password-protection mode that prevented youths from watching age-inappropriate material online.

Just for fun, here’s part of the suit Sevier is bringing against Apple:

The Plaintiff loves Apple. The Plaintiff believes in Apple, as a company and knows that it has good intent. Since its inception, Apple has always been a pro-family company, Apple has always been an entity that is concerned with the welfare of our Nation’s children, while furthering pro-American values. There is no reason for Apple, a private company to overly support pornography online, explicit sexual content which has led to the proliferation of arousal addiction, sex trafficking, prostitution, and countless numbers of destroyed lives. The Plaintiff respectfully demand that Apple sell all of its devices on “safe mode,” with software preset to filter out pornographic content. If the purchaser of Apple’s products is over 18, Apple should allow the buyer to take additional step to acquire a password from Apple in order to remove the filter to access Constitutionally protected indecent content. If the buyer is under 18, Apple should not provide the password.

Sources: Above the Law, Ars Technica

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