A TENNESSEE lawyer is suing Apple for allegedly making him a pornography addict after he mistakenly typed 'F***book' instead of 'Facebook' into Google and ended up on an adult website, leading to an "unwanted addiction with adverse consequences", including the failure of his marriage.
Chris Sevier, an attorney from Nashville, has filed a complaint against Apple in federal court for making devices that are able to display pornographic images, says Abovethelaw.com. The 36-year-old believes that Apple should sell all products with an pre-installed filter that blocks all pornography. Sevier argues that the images he saw when he accidentally found himself at F***book - a hook-up site for people looking for casual sex - "appealed to his biological sensibilities as a male".
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