{"id":4781,"date":"2016-07-08T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/08\/snapchat-sued-by-14-year-old-over-racy-discover-stories\/"},"modified":"2016-07-08T07:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:06:02","slug":"snapchat-sued-by-14-year-old-over-racy-discover-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/08\/snapchat-sued-by-14-year-old-over-racy-discover-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat sued by 14-year-old over racy Discover stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Snapchat, which began its life with an X-rated reputation, is now being sued for some R-rated content \u2014 by someone who can barely see a PG-13 movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A 14-year-old boy and his mom have filed a lawsuit against Snapchat over content that appeared on the Discover section, which features stories, video and interactive elements from a variety of media partners. (Mashable<\/i>\u00a0is a partner on Discover.)<\/p>\n

The complaint comes from the law firm of Mark Geragos<\/a>, one of the most well-known media lawyers currently practicing.<\/p>\n

“Specifically, through Snapchat Discover, Snapchat is currently engaged in an insidious pattern and practice of intentionally exposing minors to harmful, offensive, prurient, and sexually offensive content, without warning minors or their parents that they would be exposed to such explicit content,” the complaint reads.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Snapchat, which began its life with an X-rated reputation, is now being sued for some R-rated content \u2014 by someone who can barely see a PG-13 movie.\u00a0 A 14-year-old boy and his mom have filed a lawsuit against Snapchat over … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,2187,1900,901,2379],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business","tag-digital-media","tag-lawsuit","tag-media","tag-snapchat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}