Some people read Playboy for the articles — and a deaf Brooklyn man apparently watches Pornhub with an eye to the plots.
You can’t enjoy a video like “Hot Step Aunt Babysits Disobedient Nephew” if you can’t hear the dialogue and everything else that’s going on, Yaroslav Suris says in a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Suris tried to watch numerous videos on Pornhub and other porn sites — like Youporn and Redtube — over several months, including “Sexy Cop Gets Witness To Talk” and “Daddy 4K – Allison Comes To Talk About Money To Her Boys Naughty Father,” the lawsuit says.
But the videos lack enough closed captioning, claims the class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of all deaf and hard-of-hearing people. The suit argues that the websites violate the Americans with Disabilities Act by not providing the same access to people who can’t hear.
“If the Websites were accessible, the Plaintiff and the Class wanted to access and would access all of their content, including premium and subscription content,” the lawsuit said.
“This lack of closed captioning by the Defendants on their Websites prevent not only the Plaintiff but also the deaf and hard of hearing located in New York State and nationally from having equal access.”
Suris is seeking unspecified money damages, as well as civil penalties and fines against the porn company.
“We understand that Yaroslav Suris is suing Pornhub for claiming we’ve denied the deaf and hearing-impaired access to our videos,” Corey Price, Vice President of Pornhub, told TMZ.
“While we do not generally comment on active lawsuits, we’d like to take this opportunity to point out that we do have a closed captions category,” he said.
The federal lawsuit is the most recent in a slew of complaints Suris has filed in the last year over a lack of closed captions in online videos.
He also filed a lawsuit against the New York Post in 2019, alleging that the newspaper’s website has videos without closed captioning. He tried to watch “Why Joe Girardi would instantly increase Mets’ credibility,” but could not, according to the lawsuit against the Post.
Suris has also sued Fox News, CBS and TMZ.
