Via Broken Toys comes a report that MySpace is being sued for $30 million by a mother who claims herBlind justice underage daughter was sexually assaulted by a man she met on MySpace. Leaving aside the obvious parental unfitness the mother has demonstrated in her hypocritical attempt to pass the responsibility for bad parenting to MySpace (See? We can all engage in histronics.), what annoys me about this is the obvious attempt to fling a stone at the nearest big company in the hopes of knocking a settlement to the ground. This woman’s daughter was allegedly assaulted in Travis County, in the state of Texas, in the United States. Why not sue Texas on this logic, since that’s where the assault actually occured? Surely where the assault takes place is more relevant than where the assailant met the victim. Why not sue the US government, since it failed to prevent the assault from actually taking place? How about an automaker, since no doubt cars were involved in transporting the victim to the place of victimization?

Stupid, stupid, stupid.