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July 24, 2007 by Geeks are Sexy | 4 commentsLast friday, Reuters reported that Nigerian kids who recently received their shiny new XO Laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization got caught using them to download pornography.
“Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry, as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials,” the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said.
Is anyone really surprised by this? I know I’m not! Authorities responsible for the project will apparently install content filters so that these kinds of situations do not happen again. Even then, I’m sure Nigerian teens will quickly discover ways to circumvent these safety measures.
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And you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be a LOT more Nigerian 419 schemes rolling around.
Yay.
No big surprise. Porn is probably helped a lot more(than [people will admit) of what made the internet what it is today both good and bad. Expect more Nigerian scams in your email soon,lol.
It’s sad that content filter safeguards weren’t already in place to prevent this sort of thing. Even beyond that, however, I wonder if we’re being naive to assume that the introduction of notebook PCs to children – Third-World or otherwise – is going to magically equate to better learning or life.
The hardware & software technology that the MIT folks have assembled in the OLCP is undoubtedly impressive. And I’m anxious to see how these innovations will bleed over into the more traditional notebook world. But I’m not convinced that technology is the most appropriate solution to the problems that face the target users of these devices.
this is what the internet was created for as can be explained here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg
:)