thanks, saw it. totally absurd, and oh-so expected.
As a matter of fact, I think this is a heads-up for the OLPC: if its
good enough for porn, then its good enough for anything they say it can do!
On 21/07/07, *Joel Kahn* <jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
For those who may have missed it: below the dotted line
is a story from Reuters, Friday, July 20th, 10:31 AM ET.
Food for thought here in connection with the Malawi
project. I can't help wondering why they didn't have
filters on the laptops in the first place. . . .
........................................................
Pupils browse porn on donated laptops
Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from
a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore
pornographic sites on the Internet, the official
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday.
NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images
stored on several of the children's laptops.
"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," NAN said.
A representative of the One Laptop Per Child aid group
was quoted as saying that the computers, part of a
pilot scheme, would now be fitted with filters.
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