Facebook Sued for Allowing Racy Images of 12 Year Old

Ashbringer said:
Toothball said:
Yes, children do stupid shit. But that does not mean that they should automatically be exonerated for doing stupid shit.
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Yes they should. Why? Cause I didn't even think of doing that kind of shit when I was a kid. No kid should. That's a kid with mental issues, and those kind of kids are very dangerous. Cause they pull this kind of crap, and walk away as if nothing happened.

Woops! She burned the house down. Lets sue the company that makes lighters. :rolleyes:
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exonerated :

1. Freed from any question of guilt, acquitted.
 
Dreaz said:
And both of these statements just aren't back by any facts besides lol anecdotes. Research continually shows parents are one of the least influential groups on children. Groups such as the media and peers continually outrank and out influence children. Some of it has to do with time spent with children, but then again, America does not promote family first financially or socially. Secondly, how people act influences children more than what parents say. On one hand, parents might say girls and boys are equal, and on the other hand social groups from the media, classroom, and within their peers show an obvious and stark contrast and inequality between the genders. "Good parenting" isn't going to overcome these hurdles alone.

For instance, this essay introduces quite a few studies that show there is no significant link between racist parents and racist children. lol anecdotes would indicate that a racist parent would obviously raise a racist child, yet that link (or its opposite) simply does not exist.

http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/africology/faculty/upload/children_colorblind.pdf

The essay also demonstrates how race perceptions come from outside sources (not the parents), and it doesn't just stop with race, these social norms are reinforced outside of family structures. Whether you believe it or not, scientific research demonstrates over and over that you are wrong.
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That is the biggest pile of horseshit I've ever seen. The ONLY reason that this would be true is if the parents allow it to be true. "Television caused my kid to be bad, wah wah!" Well idiot, who used the TV as a baby sitter? "My kid hangs out with the wrong crowd" Well idiot, make him not hang out with that crowd. And if its too bad, put him/her in military school.

The point is that parents set the amount of influence they have with their kids. For the last 20 years or so parents have decided to have less and less influence on their kids and then want to blame everyone else when their kids act out of line. Sorry, but the parents are at fault, end of story. If you don't believe this, then you do not deserve to be a parent. Don't like my opinion, you can kiss my ass. My step son has never been in jail, never got into drugs or stealing. Sure he doesn't have any ambition yet, but that is something he has to find on his own.
 
Stupid kid does stupid things on the internet. News at 11.

Stupid parent points finger at wrong party. Demands that party do the imposable. News at 11:30.
 
What part of posting racy pics on Facebook sounds like a good idea? Dumb Dad = Dumb kid. Not the kids fault that Daddy can't parent though. So, Dad is gone all the time and she is looking for some male attention. What a bastard you are Facebook!!!!!
 
Betaboy1983 said:
What part of posting racy pics on Facebook sounds like a good idea? Dumb Dad = Dumb kid. Not the kids fault that Daddy can't parent though. So, Dad is gone all the time and she is looking for some male attention. What a bastard you are Facebook!!!!!
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New t[H]read drinking game.
Every time someone posts without having read the article, take a shot.
 
Yep, another parent blaming someone else for his daughters fail. She may need new parents.
 
No one actually ever reads the articles these posts refer to,do they? "The girl, who reportedly suffers from emotional problems, was in the custody of Northern Health and Social Care Trust when she posted the offending images." So how is this the parents fault?
As for the idiots who defend Facebook on the grounds that it's too hard to moderate what's posted,if they can't handle doing it,they should never of started the damn thing to begin with.
 
I really don't think anyone is to blame. If you actually read the article, the girl has mental issues and her dad already took down one of her facebook profiles.

That said, I don't think its feasible for facebook to verify every image being uploaded or for the parents to act like a police state.
 
The unpopular yet responsible choice is to keep your kids off of social media until they reach an appropriate age.

This is an industry begging for regulation and it will get it. Don't forget that computers are all about lots of rules and no mercy.
 
Epic fail. "I'm suing because I let my kid do something she wasn't supposed to."

BREAKING NEWS: Father Sues Auto Dealer after 8-year-old son Drives Off in New Camaro
 
Who the hell would want their Facebook profile attached to their Passport information?
 
michael.pa2 said:
As for the idiots who defend Facebook on the grounds that it's too hard to moderate what's posted,if they can't handle doing it,they should never of started the damn thing to begin with.
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*srsly guise cat*


srsly......

you started off fine..then ended with this.
 
jojo69 said:
none of you read the article

kid was in CPS custody when it happened, father had already shut down her first account
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Then its the fault of CPS not facebook. Pretty simple, whoever let the kid have free reign on the internet is at fault, period. Its not facebooks responsibility to parent their community.

Parents these days... What did father of the year do to get his kids taken by CPS anyway?
 
piscian18 said:
I'm gonna be that guy. Facebook is hosting the pictures. From a government agencies perspective Facebook is hosting porn. If it's publicly accessible Facebook has an obligation to keep the site monitored and clean. Does this guy have a case against Facebook? Naw, but I can see him getting some money from this agency if he was paying for her care at the facility. If this is a state protection thing and she was entrusted or taken away then no probably tough shit.
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Racy =! Nudity

As for the topic, yes I think Northern Health and Social Care Trust should be slapped with a lawsuit for failing to supervise young adults on the internet, but Facebook should not be. The dad's either letting his emotions affect his judgement or he's being greedy.
 
Headcase said:
New t[H]read drinking game.
Every time someone posts without having read the article, take a shot.
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Are you crazy? That would be like saying everytime someone near you blinks take a drink,.


The most this supposed lawsuit would do is test the "terms and conditions" in court and maybe sparking some case law that people can misquote as a matter of fact. The whole check this box if you are 13 thing is a joke. Much like click hear if you are 18 or enter your date here to proceed (looking at you Steam..).
 
Netrat33 said:
*srsly guise cat*


srsly......

you started off fine..then ended with this.
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I know it's a foreign concept these days,but running a business does come with responsibilities. They were fine with all the money and attention they've gotten,if they and their followers can't take the heat from something like this,too damn bad.
 
10:00 News Team: Parent sues Facebook for not reviewing all pictures prior to allowing them to be posted!
11:00 News Team: Privacy groups sue Facebook for reviewing all pictures prior to allowing them to be posted!
 
Pabuchok said:
I think Facebook should sue the father for allowing his 12 year old to post racy images of herself on their site.
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Please tell me you are joking. They will never win that because that's ridiculous. No one can watch their 24/7/365.... get real, especially in this economy lately. People have to work more, longer hours, etc

Talk about another facebook fanboy....
 
stefan231 said:
quote from the article.

"So where were the parents when the girl was busy posting those pics in which she's "made-up" and "in a provocative pose" — you're no doubt asking. The Dad, in fact, shut down his daughter's original Facebook profile, so she launched another one. The girl, who reportedly suffers from emotional problems, was in the custody of Northern Health and Social Care Trust when she posted the offending images. Dad's suing that agency, too."
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Awesome.. I hope facebook gets rocked. They deserve it for raping my ears with "join us on facebook!" hidden advertising on every......fucking.....channel, these past 2-3 years....
 
Dylan80 said:
Awesome.. I hope facebook gets rocked. They deserve it for raping my ears with "join us on facebook!" hidden advertising on every......fucking.....channel, these past 2-3 years....
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Because nobody can resist advertisement. We're all mindless lemmings. We need to be cared for by the government.

Is that what you're getting at? Because it sure sounds like it.
 
Nope.

I just wish facebook would do a little less advertising finally, its getting to the point where Apple is no longer the most annoying spammer of product placement ads. That's quite a fucking lot of commercials.... :) And no, I honestly don't watch THAT much TV. I watch one of my favorite shows and the news basically and you cannot go half a day without hearing facebook twice. It's overhyped way too much as something different, when its not, hands down.
 
Dylan80 said:
Nope.

I just wish facebook would do a little less advertising finally, its getting to the point where Apple is no longer the most annoying spammer of product placement ads. That's quite a fucking lot of commercials.... :) And no, I honestly don't watch THAT much TV. I watch one of my favorite shows and the news basically and you cannot go half a day without hearing facebook twice. It's overhyped way too much as something different, when its not, hands down.
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See, the way you mentioned Apple like that tells me you're just regurgitating popular internet e-rage.

I see no more ads from Apple as I do with HP. Dell hasn't been showing much ads anymore since the Dude guy was fired - at least not that I've noticed - but HP's always on television. Ditto Sprint, ditto AT&T, ditto Dish network and Comcast/Xfinity, but I don't see Apple ads as much anymore. Maybe I'm just not counting it and getting my panties in a twist.

On a related note: oh man, look at all the NewEgg and ThinkGeek and Crucial and Thermaltake ads we keep getting on the [H] ad banners! It's forcing me to buy stuff from them all the time! BRB calling my lawyer because I can't browse the internet without the government holding my hands.

If you don't like something, don't watch it. Don't buy it. Don't use it. Just don't deny it to everyone else.
 
So if I don't like a commercial being repeated on almost every channel I watch.... than Don't watch TV? Talk about bad use of a cliche saying.

No thanks, I enjoy my free TV and I am not going to let shitty facebook spam, or some cliche saying (if you dont like it why do you do it?) stop me from watching television like a normal person.

When does spam and advertising not have any limits, that's a good question? Facebook just attaches its advertising product placement ads over everything that is mainstream, that's why its popular, not because its a good service or something new.

If anyone here is DENYING anything, its certainly you denying that facebook does not spam product placement ads over every single fucking popular TV show in the US. Its getting pathetic, yesterday I was watching ESPN, and that black/red bar on the left side that shows the upcoming sports topics had a HUGEEEE ad on the top "Join our facebook page!" ..... right, like ESPN just put that up there for free.

You know what I wonder when I see this... .what happened to companies making their OWN .com website?!?! It's pathetic now, they just join facebook and twitter instead, and believe that is all of their customer base?
 
Uh no, don't watch the commercial - don't buy their product - don't use their product. Not don't watch TV as a whole. I'm fairly sure "normal" people ignore the commercials. Trust me, you're not it.

As the the Facebook banners on commercials, it's that product advertising themselves on the web using Facebook's service. It's no different from that product being on television or having their own web site or being shown on the [H] web site's ad banner. They're using their domain registrar's service (GoDaddy, etc), or they're using the [H]'s service. A lot of time you'll also see "visit us at product_website.com" as well, and I don't see you complain about that. You're just bitching about Facebook.

I honestly think you're just making a big deal out of nothing.
 
Really, I am just really sick of the over-exaggeration (esp shit like time magazine "man of the year" for the facebook guy.... honestly? man of the year for something non-innovative and unique? its just a popular website that advertises a lot, and the guy is man of the year? sigh)

I don't care about twitter at all, and that gets mentioned just as much... but nobody hypes it up to be something its not, like facebook OBVIOUSLY, AND CLEARLY does.

No, I don't have a DVR so I agree... I'm not a normal HDTV watcher :p
 
Knight_of_BAAWA said:
How about the father takes some personal responsibility and keeps better tabs on what his daughter is doing, rather than thinking that it's Someone Else's Problem.

Idiots like that shouldn't have kids, since they clearly don't want to be parents.
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^ THIS /close thread
 
Dreaz said:
People are so quick to blame the parents for bad parenting (and most often these are single males saying this) but there is a lot of truth to 'it takes a village to raise a child'. Why are Americans so resistant to promoting a culture that helps people raise children?
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Because in order to afford to raise a child here in the states both parents have to work 50-70 hours per week.
 
Facebook handles some censoring when people report things, but they can't be expected to be a perfect arbiter of censorship.

Censoring is such a mind-bogglingly complex process.
Who handles it?
What do we censor?
Which standards do we follow?
What are the exceptions?
How do we prioritize what to censor?

The plaintiffs expect Facebook to answer all the questions about censorship which nobody has provided a perfect answer to in all of human history.

What eternal philosophical questions should we force Facebook to solve next? The meaning of life? How about who is right and who is wrong in wars? The definition of cruel and unusual? The correct way to raise children? When you should pull the plug on someone near death?
 
Wtf? If you're working 50-70 hours per week just to get by with a child then you're at your limit and you shouldn't be raising a child. Heck you shouldn't even have a child since you don't have time to be a parent.
 
Dylan80 said:
Please tell me you are joking. They will never win that because that's ridiculous. No one can watch their 24/7/365.... get real, especially in this economy lately. People have to work more, longer hours, etc

Talk about another facebook fanboy....
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Didn't read all the posts, but this post should goes both ways. Parent's can't be expect to watch their kids 24/7/365 but neither can Facebook be expected to watch over their 700 million users 24/7/365.

The SCT as well, but was the kid forcibly taken? (I'm unsure on what SCT is, is it a child care or is it protective service?) If so, then the father can forget it, and SCT should be blamed and not sued and if it continues then they obviously aren't doing their job either.

If it's a child care service, then it's the parent's fault for not informing them that their kid might or tend to do these things so that they can take appropriate measures like not letting her near a computer.
 
OK i couldnt care less that she on face book and to the dad hey dip shit take away the friggen camera so she cant take the pictures ya moron. its not facebooks fault you got her a 12mp kodak camera for christman its yours.
 
P4rD0nM3 said:
Wtf? If you're working 50-70 hours per week just to get by with a child then you're at your limit and you shouldn't be raising a child. Heck you shouldn't even have a child since you don't have time to be a parent.
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You dont need to work 50-70 hours a week to raise a child i have a 2 year old and work 35-45 hours a week and have enough money to pay my bills health insurance feed and clothe and spoil the crap out of my kid on just that.This both parent need to work 7 days a week crap is such bs how bout ya dont go buying a smg mercades you dont order out every night how bout ya dont buy the 5 bedroom house with an acre and a half yard thats you your wife and 2 kids live in. I have a 3 bedroom house and have more than enough space to live and more than enough money to pay all my living cost and then some its called managing your money.

And no i do not get any kind of goverment support I work for everything i have and will do so till the day i die or hit the lotto lol
 
Oh, and with the dad demanding that Facebook require SSNs/passport numbers to create an account, what would the privacy groups say to that?

Seems like whenever anyone does something "for the children", it erodes the rights of everyone else.
 
reading this thread irritates the crap out of me. not because the main topic of this thread but because so many stupid comments from people who DIDNT READ THE FREAKING ARTICLE EVEN after the line from the article was quoted MULTIPLE times.

"So where were the parents when the girl was busy posting those pics in which she's "made-up" and "in a provocative pose" — you're no doubt asking. The Dad, in fact, shut down his daughter's original Facebook profile, so she launched another one. The girl, who reportedly suffers from emotional problems, was in the custody of Northern Health and Social Care Trust when she posted the offending images. Dad's suing that agency, too."
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jeebus! T.T
 
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