OLPC students surf porn
So much for helping students learn about computing and the neat things that a computer can do to enhance creativity. Nope, the Nigerian news agency is reporting this morning. Nothing better than giving a bunch of children a computer so they can surf porn on the internet in a developing country, without any kind of filtering component. The OLPC folks are busy trying to work out the scenario for damage control.
ABUJA (Reuters) - 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. Source: Reuters
Not to mention that this has a high amusement factor, what do you do when you introduce computing systems to people who are still learning that the internet is both good and bad. Let alone that the internet is really an adult environment in a lot of ways to go along with that.
Filtering software probably ever even entered into the equation for OLPC, nor what this will do to the cost of the computing system, or how easily filtering software can be defeated by anyone clever enough to know how computers work. We are sure that there are going to be a lot of proxy systems, or other ways of working their way around the filters that are installed no matter what they are. Filtering while Ok, has historically been defeated rather easily.
In the mean time, Nigeria’s school kids can surf porn on OLPC computers, which is going to cause problems in the longer run for OLPC, and other organizations that are giving out those computers.
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