Free laptops help kids juggle smut, studies

[stiltman]

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747884-7.html?tag=nefd.only

Now that we are breaking down the digital divide by getting computers to children in impoverished regions of the world, let's take a look at what the kids are doing with their new laptops. It turns out they are using them the same way most of the people surfing the Net use them: searching for pornography.

A reporter for the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) found that pornographic images were stored on many of the laptops donated by the One Laptop Per Child project.

"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," Reuters quoted NAN as saying.

However, a representative for the One Laptop Per Child project questioned the news value of the story and the motivation behind the report.

"To focus on it this much means that the reporter really wanted a headline grabbing story or is against the project on a personal level," Wayan Votao wrote on the organization's news site.

"No matter which, OLPC Nigeria reacted quickly and XO computers will now be fitted with filters," Votao wrote. "Porn surfing is not a technical problem to be solved with filters, it's a human nature issue addressed through a comprehensive cultural integration process."

It's probably also worth noting that the school children are also using the laptops for their stated purpose: education.

[thecoalman]

"No matter which, OLPC Nigeria reacted quickly and XO computers will now be fitted with filters," Votao wrote.

Yeaaa, that'll fix it.

[zzyzzx]

Article is worthless without pics.

[stiltman]

Article is worthless without pics.

I just knew this story would get your attention

[Doramius]

What kind of porn are they looking at? 3/4 of the tribes have women who don't wear shirts, badly need bras, and the breasts look like a flap of loose skin after a mass fat reduction surgery.

At least they can easily power the laptop friction motor with the movement of masturbation.

[zzyzzx]

What kind of porn are they looking at? 3/4 of the tribes have women who don't wear shirts, badly need bras, and the breasts look like a flap of loose skin after a mass fat reduction surgery.

At least they can easily power the laptop friction motor with the movement of masturbation.

[Doramius]

Doing your part to provide an alternate supply of power, I see.