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youthoftoday writes "The OLPC project to bring the internet to third world has worked well — too well, it seems. Yahoo reports that Nigerian Children are already using the OLPC to browse for porn." This is why as kids we couldn't look at National Geographic issues without being supervised. A rep from OLPC said, understandably, that the laptops would now be fitted with filters.
We have finally brought the joys of the internet to those less fortunate.
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I really can't take the story's word for it without photographic evidence.
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Americans looked at naked Africans as kids, so African kids should be able to look at naked Americans now.
I'd rather those Nigerian children would browse porn instead of sending out 419 emails.
It has been reported that the sun has risen in Nigeria today.
Analyst are in agreement that the sun will almost certainly rise again probably once each day for the next few weeks.
Also: filters? get a fucking clue.
How about instead we just use these internets to send the offending officials some biology texts so that can learn about human sexuality and stop trying to stifle it.
Why don't OLPC do the decent thing and set goatse as the browser homepage?
email next.
Soon these kids will learn how to walk through Torpark, and, as the OLPC distributors clog the the computers with even more filters and blocks, a new generation of extremely computer-able hackers will come of age.
No matter where you go on the 'net, chances are you're going to hit some kind of porn sooner or later whether you meant to or not. Since these were originally destined for children, I'm surprised they did NOT come equipped with filters from the start. A big oversight for sure.
OLPC Project: "Here children, I give you THE INTERNET... totally unfiltered. Enjoy."
[5 minutes later...]
Children: "What is Goatse?"
Sigh...
Get those filters on!
Mark
Seriously... who would've thought... Why was it reported at all? Maybe another title would be better - "Shocking revelation: Nigerian boys also want to see sex". I'm not surprised - are you? I'd say that great majority of males on the intertubes browsed porn sites at least once - keyword statistics from search engines seem to agree.
what will OLPC do to protect free speech???
latex balloon sales to Nigeria skyrocket overnight!
A rep from OLPC said, understandably, that the laptops would now be fitted with filters.
No, sorry, I do not understand. There's nothing evil about porn and those filter won't work anyway.
I mean - think of the children!!!
I'm all for helping the poor and supporting 3rd world countries etc, but I can name at least 50 nations more deserving of the OLPC program than Nigeria and yes I know that not everyone in Nigeria is a scammer but why are we so eagar to help a country that does so little to help itself? The reason the 419 crap continues is because they have government that looks the other way, hold them accountable then give handouts.
So its understandable that we will start enforcing our concept of morality on others right off the bat?
Remember, morality is relative.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
because the filter manufacturers nood more sales?
manufacturers nood more sales?
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That's one helluva Freudian slip there,chief!
I don't know why the OLPC project is giving internet access anyway. If I were them I'd create a closed network with educational sites alone. They don't need access to the internet universe.
Don't forget to export your morality with the laptops.
Oh Yeah! Look at the hangers on that one!
Why are "children" capitalized? Is "Nigerian Children" some kind of a scammer group? What a funny name..
...it will emerge that the pornographic material the kids were browsing was J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye," Titian's and Disney's "The Little Mermaid."
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Has anyone thought that perhaps they didn't seek out porn, but it's so common and easier to access than most legitimate content?
Sorry, Disney... I meant J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye," Titian'sVenus d'Urbino and Disney's "The Little Mermaid."
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Internet is for PORN!!
Never trust anybody to meet your own morality standards. When you ship the internet to the third world, make sure they only see what _you_ want them to see.
"A rep from OLPC said, understandably, that the laptops would now be fitted with filters."
I think they should also send out therapists. Those children will clearly be traumatised by viewing evil images of naked women.
"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free" ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four
There is an AIDs issue to deal with here!
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A question to ask: Does porn help promote AIDS with viewers or help to demote it?
Perhaps there is an age of threshold but that is something that should be determined by the current living environment.
So what is an indicator of that threshold? What gave the kids the idea of looking for porn on the internet in the first place? Seems to me the threshold was already passed before they looked for it on the internet.
I'm almost 50 years old and my email is filtered, not by my choice, such that I still get the porn promotion emails but the urls are changed to be random character strings. Whether or not I would access such sites is not the issue.
The issue is of censorship of what is in fact a part of human nature.
If you make something as natural as sex bad then you'll guarantee the typical rebellious teen age person will find a way. And maybe that way is such an act as to spread disease and unwanted pregnancies.
What can porn teach? proper safe sex? It can perhaps remove some level of curiosity
But porn or not, there is the natural human sex drive. Deny it and you'll have problems develop from ignorance and un-natural guilt. Such acts as rape included.
And how about the history of porn? What can it teach? The dangers of AIDs and other STDs?
If kids already know to look for porn on the internet, maybe its time the subject matter be properly addressed instead of being swept under the rug filter.
The biggest problem, the biggest contributing factor with the spread of AIDs in Africa, is ignorance.
Wait a minute, I live in Atlanta, I'm white...
Forget everything I said above.....
[Fry, Prof. Farnsworth, etc. watching a documentory in the internet]
Fry: In my days, the internet was used only for porn.
Farnsworth: Yes, that's what it's like today.
[Scientists in the documentory begin to undress]
(translated out of memory)
Filters and other barriers will just place a new pressure on the users who will adapt to avoid the filters. This will turn out to be a never ending struggle since as long as there is a will, there is a way. What a stupid waste of resources.
I'm also pretty certain that this is not the first naked person these kids have seen, and I doubt its the first time they've seen someone have sex. I know that I saw both those things before I saw porn - so what exactly are we saving here?
I am sure pornography viewing has ruined lives and caused people problems before, and I'm sure it will in the future, but I like to think it had a positive role in my development. I began my serious computer usage the evening that I was at a friends house who showed me you could download naked pictures from BBSs. When I went home I immediately dug out the 1200 baud modem that had been gathering dust in the basement. I spent the next few days figuring out how to operate the terminal programs and finding software to view these magical gifs and jpegs (I had an Amiga, so I had to work a little harder). This pursuit of naked girls eventually led me to the internet, and shell accounts (which I used to grab the newsgroups) - back in the early 90s. So I'd like to say thank you to the women who posed naked for a couple hundred bucks, if I could buy you all a round of beers I would.
Is that all they can find to say about the OLPC. When was the last time you read a headline about schoolchildren viewing porn under MS Bisto? How about a story about an international news organization partnering up with US cable company's to deliver quality porn to cable and satellite subscribers. Here in Euroland we can always can rely on Murdochs Sky Adult channels.
Comcast cashing in on porn
AT&T porn channel challenged by religious investors
All we need now is OLPC contributes to a) terrorism, b) money laundering and c) contributes to third world poverty. Scratch the last one, its the GPL that does that, according to Jonathan Schwartz.
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We will see a tremendous AIDS drop within a few decades.
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First, it's very easy to link to pictures of naked women on the Internet. And second, any society that wants to prevent children from looking at Titians has something very, very wrong indeed with it. Don't get me wrong; I don't believe anybody ought to be allowed to profit from the depiction of sexual cruelty and violence. But the fuss that some factions in the US make about a bare nipple or two makes the US look ridiculous in most of the developed world. So don't apologise to Disney for accidentally linking them with a great picture. Apologise to the shade of Titian for accidentally linking him with Disney.
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Maybe the sexy Asian girls can now help the Nigerians get their money safely out of the country.
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FAQs are evil.
after all sending Email or IM from Nigeria is as good as useless thanks to their brethrens 419 attempts
just about every corp i have worked with blocks ALL Nigerian originated email, no exceptions
if you are a freemail provider iam suprised you just dont block all Nigerian web access as the legitimate users must be a tiny percentage of
their userbase and every 419 sent from your service puts you deeper into the blackholes
i already block Nigeria from all our web services due to abuse, its just not worth the hassle
sad really, give them access to the world and the first thing they want to do is steal and scam instead of directing that thinking into opening a store or selling products/crafts/services legally
there really is no helping people sometimes
Turgid, erect, throbbing, tubes...
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I guess old Senator what's his name was right, eh kiddies?
Opening new forms of communication is always going to result a wild rush of memes, propaganda and fetishes until the culture adapts, whether its porn, religion, radical hatred or lolcats.
... about the mating rituals of the North American albino people!
The game.
Not completely on topic, but if looking at porn is a problem, maybe we should figure out why people are doing it rather than just punishing people who look at or restricting it. Alfie Kohn has written a lot on how rewards and punishments don't work.
I'm sure the kids are doing other stuff with the computers too anyway--stuff that is more generally accepted.
If all they do is watch porn, that's a problem. But if the existence of something they're very interested in (porn) on the Internet prompts them to learn how to make the computers work and to use search engines and to find out how to get around porn filters, etc., that's obviously motivating them to learn some useful skills! And while they're on that search engine, they may have some other questions that they're interested in...
Is it only rich countries that are allowed to benefit from porn providing motivation for the adoption of new technologies?
Could someone explain to me, preferably without recourse to religious argument, what is wrong with these kids viewing porn? I mean, they're actively seeking it out, and so must already be interested, so you can't argue that the laptops are somehow corrupting them - they're already corrupt (by that definition)...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
I would be more surprised if it wasn't. And, besides the fact that it's about a cheap computer, how is this news? Every other type of computer in the world, over the last, say, 5 or 10 years, has been used by someone, somewhere, to browse porn. Would it be news if someone used a dell, or a mac, to browse porn?
Everything is subjective.
Surprise, Nigerians are human (and horny), too. What's wrong with that? The topic is brought up as if somehow these unfortunate people are "ungrateful" for their gift of technology.
A few years back I was watching a documentary on TV dealing with stone age peoples somewhere in the world. At one point it showed all the the women (white scientists and black natives) and their children in the river bathing. Breasts of all shapes and sizes were visible as they all frolicked in the water. That is, on the black women, on the white women their brests were digitally obscured.
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That is, on the black women, on the white women their brests were digitally obscured.
So whose fingers were being used to cover the breasts?
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Yeah, let those kids learn about unprotected ass-to-mouth sex. That'll keep the HIV rates down!
Let them learn about every kind of sex, stop treating sex and masturbation like freakish taboo abnoramalities and let them have open honest dialogue about sex. That will bring HIV rates down. Alot of guys in porns wear condoms. Nobody every got AIDS from masturbating. If (while they actually stay monogamous) they can close their eyes and fantasize about some porn starlet and that fulfills their natural male desire for a variety of partners, then that too will help control the spread of STDs. Maybe some men there will learn to appreciate women who have orgasims, and the practice of female circumcision will stop. All in all this will probably be a good thing.
We are all just people.
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I object to the inclusion of filters by the OLPC. What is required in this instance is that the children be educated as to what is expected of them, learning what is right and wrong, personal responsibility etc. Who decides what the filters should filter? The US? Does that mean that sites discussing evolution should now be denied to Nigerian children?. Or how about letting a strict Muslim nation choose? Then we can ban cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Or how about Russia or China? I'm sure that they will always want the world to see only the good side of the West. The filters can be applied only, in this instance, by the Nigerian Government as they are best able to decide what should be permitted on computers used by their school children. But the choice should not rest with the OLPC aid group otherwise the computers could easily become nothing more than a convenient method of disseminating one country's specific viewpoint rather than letting children learn for themselves. By all means provide the computers but no-one should dictate to the recipients what web sites they may visit and which ones are banned. Assist other countries, but don't tell them what they should do. After all, we don't like being told what to do by someone else, why should they?
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Ignorance in the supervision is where the blame lies. It's the same as if you gave a child a blowtorch to light a barbecue and the kid burns down the garage in the process. Only an idiot blames the torch.
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Maybe they'll chill out watching porn and stop sending all those email scams.
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Why do children need laptops anyway? People think that technology is power. Knowledge is power. People think that technology is knowledge. So you hand these kids a laptop and expect them to then become knowledge able. Personally I think that education has gone down hill ever since technology has been allowed in the classrooms.
When doing research in a library (with physical books) you'll probably stumble across 15 different topics and learn several things rather than just immediately finding that paragraph you need to quote about the topic you're researching.
Sure, technology brings precision and ease. But the person driving doesn't learn anything. They just learn what questions to ask and where to find information. I suppose the argument could be made that if you know where to find it, then you know everything. I personally would feel like a moron if I couldn't answer any questions if my internet died.
Fry: "Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex!"
So not only is this project a major supporter of digital rights management, but now it's going to be supporting censorware, too? Am I the only one who sees how dangerous this project is on the whole?
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Did they just equate Nigerian porn to those saggy, naked tribes in National Geographic?! XD
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
Pornography (hardcore, softcore or other) may be educational in the context of a sex-ed class, but otherwise it is outside the intent of the mission.
That is the basic justification (not religious morality) for many of the restrictions placed upong kids in an educational environment... in a secular state at least.
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This wasn't done on OLPC laptops. Not only did digg have the story before you, it was correct.+ donated-laptops-to-surf-the-porn-of-course-280715. php
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/booby-trap/kids-use-us
The OLPC manufacturers were just asked about what they'd do. That was there only relation to the story.
I think this is great news. Perhaps the amount of rapes (a HUGE problem in Africa) will decrease as these people find a different outlet for their sexual tension/frustrations.
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If they truly only blocked porn, then maybe it would be a matter of discussion, but certain filters' habit of censoring all sorts of irrelevant contents, political and otherwise really makes porn the lesser of the two evils.
Blocking US Football Superbowls XXX through XXXIX and the movies "xXx" and "XXX: State of the Union" are hardly evils, and probably goods.
Hooray for Yahoo Shortcuts!
I'd rather those Nigerian children would browse porn instead of sending out 419 emails.
You think they will stop at the free stuff? No, they will move on to the pay-for-access sites and develop a greater need for cash. After all, porn is more expensive than food. Expect a lot more scams and phishing coming nations benefiting from OLPC.
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Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
No, I'm one of the parents that feel its MY job to supervise what my child sees, not some corporate goon from another country.
Its my right to teach my child what i feel is right and wrong, not his.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Pornography is the #1 pioneer in major technological advances.
For finding this funny? Nah....
Hello honest /. reader, I hope this finds you in good health. My late father was a wealthy 419 scammer, but when he passed away the government seized his assets, including some $5 million USD in cash and his collection of OLPCs that were used to run the scam. Since everything was seized, including my inheritance, I cannot afford the small processing fee that I need to get his assets out of the country. I need your help so that I may continue his profitable venture. If you could send a small (say, $50,000) processing fee, we would be able to liberate his wealth and computers, and you will be rewarded well for your assistance.
In addition, the batch of OLPCs he had acquired for sending scam spam is now being used to show children online pornography. We must get them back to legitimate uses such as spamming - think of the children!
Please write me back immediately so that we might begin this critical work.
Who decides what the filters should filter?
Those who fund OLPC. If you do not want governments, churches, corporations, etc attaching strings then don't take their money. If you take their money, expect them to exert some control. If you are so silly that you do not expect this then you have doomed your project through naive mismanagement. Harsh, but true.
The generosity and charity of developed nations is often squandered by parasitic cultures that refuse to modernize regardless of how much aid we send them.
This sort of thing is why I don't give to foreign territories; I know it's just going to be wasted.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Pornography is all about sexual fantasies. Most people don't have sex like the do on a porno movie. An impressionable children might come to believe that having sex like seen on a porno movie is the normal way of having it.
I'm not against nudity or teaching kids about sex, but it should be a balanced education about the facts and not just about some male fantasies.
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I would guess that was down to the personal preferences of each of the women.
Let them learn about every kind of sex, stop treating sex and masturbation like freakish taboo abnoramalities and let them have open honest dialogue about sex.
I don't have a problem with porn, and I don't have a problem with children learning about sex, but I don't think porn is a healthy way for children to learn about sex. There's all sorts of porn out there, and a good deal of it presents unrealistic scenarios out of context. Particularly those that deal with how women should be treated.
Porn should come after proper sex education, not in its stead.
The US free market: two halves of a government-granted duopoly are free to set the market price.
Regarding the National Geographic comment: Who watches the watchers? As it turns out, the watched have it covered.
Right, becuase looking at porn online is so old-school.
Well, thousands of Nigerian children busy learning the fine ins and outs of their OLPCs so they can figure out how to bypass the filters should do wonders for the Nigerian technology sector!
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Giving the kids internet access and then filtering it to keep them away from the dangerous porn is like giving them bikes and then removing the wheels.
If they didnt want the children to have the freedom the internet offers, the shouldnt have equipped the computers with internet access. Soon the governments will also realize that wikipedia tells the children that their country kinda sucks, that there are all sorts of political views besides the ones their government approve of, and that there are some very simple ways to make powerful explosives.
Now, it won't come as a surprise when these governments also want to filter out wikipedia and google and all those other sites that only bring harmful stuff. The problem is that once you filter out google, wikipedia and porn, the internet has very little to offer for these children. They certainly don't shop online. Once the internet becomes sort of pointless, or atleast uninteresting, so will the computers.
At that point, no one will be satisfied with the results. The kids will not use the computers unless they're told to, and when they are, they will only do stuff they could have just as well done with a pen and paper. The leaders of the countries will se that their children are not learning any new skills with these computers, and OLPC themselves will see that the children are not using the computers the way they hoped.
Many of the country leaders don't actually want their people's kids to have computers, they just think they do. Soon they will see their mistake, and this project will die. Just like similar projects have been quite unsuccessful in the industrialized parts of the world.
That they are not sending the Nigerian 419 scam emails!
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That just gave me an idea that will make me richer than Bill Gates and cure the energy crisis at the same time.
I'll build a device that goes on a man's cock and generates electricity by an up and down motion.
Fight Spammers!
At the ministry, they are adding tents outside for children to send e-mails saying that they are friends of a rich princes and need assistance in obtaining money.
Fight Spammers!
We're trying to improve third-world countries. Nothing will give some of those young squires ambition like seeing a hot blond sprawled across the hood of a Lamborghini and thinking "Damn! I have to get rich so I can afford one of THOSE!"
I know that all I have accomplished in my adult life started when I was 15... the provider instinct in young males is a powerful force.
Porn indicates freedom, freedom implies porn.
Yes and not necessarily, respectively.
I like porn as much as anyone else with a penis but I don't think it is a prerequisite for a free society. Sex often become less of a priority as people age and discover other interesting stuff like posting on Slashdot.
Well, [i]duh[/i].
You've been out of the game too long. Porn is totally in. Life emulates ...art? Anyway, kids today are more sexually active and experimental then you probably think. Then look at the popularity of sites like I Shot Myself and you can see that porn and real-life are beginning to merge on some kind of middle ground.
But I have to admit, the balloon popping porn still has me scratching my head.
Quack, quack.
The problem is that this gets in the way of the project's ability to achieve its real goals:
In every society there are people there are people with stricter-than-average standards of morality with regard to matters of sexuality and there are people with less strict standards. Here, with "standards of morality" I mean the pricinples according to which the people actually conduct their lives, I'm not talking about moral rules that people claim to uphold without actually living accordingly.
It can not be denied that for long-term economic development the key group of people to reach are those which who have sufficiently high standards of morality that they are able to have stable families in which the children are supported and empowered so that there is a good chance of them making significant positive contributions to the future of their community, region and/or country.
In every society, there is segmentation: Parents who work hard on empowering their children to be really successful will generally desire for their children to associate with the children of other parents who do the same. This is easy to understand economically. After all, in every society, knowing the right people is a key success factor.
Now what you absolutely don't want to happen in a project with development goals is for the key segments of society (with the people whom you really need to reach) to become unenthusiastic about the project because it gets associated with blatant porn in ways which are considered totally unacceptable in those segments of society.
As Henry Ford hath said: You can see whatever type of breasts that you like, so long as you like black.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
This was the most forseeable of outcomes. I didn't think that OLPC would transform the third world into a collection of educational powerhouses. This will bring the joys of big titty Asian girl on girl porn to the rest of the world.
LK
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However, much of the behavior of the people who make porn is evil. Most people who make US-oriented porn refuse to see that their actions degrade women and teach men unhealthy and ultimately unsatisfying habits for how to relate sexually to other people. Unfortuantely, electronic filters can't distinguish healthy behaviors in erotic material from unhealthy behaviors. It can't disinguish art from teaching domination or aggression.
For these things you need healthy communities of people who talk to one another, face to face and teach by example the best ways to interact.
There's all sorts of porn out there, and a good deal of it presents unrealistic scenarios out of context. Particularly those that deal with how women should be treated.
While I can appreciate the chick angle (you get a lot of tail with the good cop routine), I am much more concerned with the fact that porn teaches women that sex should last longer than two minutes and penetration can be perceived by a woman absent verbal confirmation.
this one made me lol
Reminds me of the time Captain Kirk taught the natives of that one planet to kill, giving them their independence. The pr0n shall set them free! But seriously, after using the computer once I am no longer able to live without it, and now one of the few reasons why I work (and am a productive member of society) is to maintain my computer habits. I hope those develop those habits, too.
Let the look at porn and tire of it. The world will be a better place.
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I don't think kids younger than, say, 13, should have unrestricted access to the Internet any more than they should have unrestricted access to the rest of the world. Someone needs to keep an eye on them, provide guidance, and keep them from getting into too much trouble. So I'm not so concerned at the fact that OLPC computers can be used to access porn--that's just a side effect of having a real computer and real Internet access. I'm more concerned that there may be a lack of adult guidance. I know that the societies targeted by OLPC skew very young demographically, but is enough being done to support the adults, or are we simply providing laptops to children and expecting them to figure things out for themselves?
Oh no! kids might use it for porn! the project is evil!
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
The internet is for porn!
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to see theres things outside of islam and other nutty religions.
as for pregnancy, the birth rate of these countries shows even without porn they have no problem doing that kinda stuff so no problem.
While 3rd-world children browsing porn is a very sensational subject, it's only one small piece of a very big potential result of the OLPC project.
... but I have my doubts. It'll probably be worth it in the long run (the USA is arguably a better place to live as a result of the American Revolution) but that won't stop the suffering of people during the violence.
Think about it. One poster quoted some publications that spoke about Nigerian culture, and the challenges it poses to anti-AIDS efforts. However, what do you think will happen when, for example, a Nigerian woman can look through the "Internet window" and see that women in America, or England, or Spain, or Germany, or even possibly Egypt (I'm not familiar with the current Egyptian culture, someone fill me in) is not subject to male domination? What do you think will happen when Nigerian children, educated by the OLPCs, can look through the "Internet window" and see the different cultures and different mores within those cultures (not just sexual mores, but all of them)? What do you think will happen when these same educated children (and some of their better-educated parents, courtesy of the OLPC) start challenging their culture's standards, with intelligent arguments and international examples to back those challenges up?
I'll tell you what will happen: a huge, (relatively) rapid change in their culture. Education is one of the most culturally disruptive things that can happen to a people; exchange of ideas is another one. Put them together and you have an absolutely massive force for change that will build up within two decades (if not sooner). While I expect that change of sexual mores will be part of that, it will only be a relatively small part.
I pray that such rapid change is not accompanied by violence
I want to be the 1st one to send goatse,tubgirl,zombo,etc to the less fortunate :P
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The "donated laptops" referenced in the article were not OLPCs, although I have no doubt that OLPCs will also be used to browse for porn...
Let's not forget that Henry Ford was the absolute master of mass re^H^Hproduction.
of Nigerian hackers - since the first thing those kids will do is disable the filters.
Filters for Nigerian kids - like the Nigerian kids are all Catholics or something...
We gonna do the same thing in Thailand, where they happily rent out their kids to tourists for the US dollar?
Morons.
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[only] on the white women their brests were digitally obscured.
Perhaps they were respecting the preferences/culture of each group. Maybe they asked the natives if they wanted such to be done. You don't know the whole story and are jumping to conclusions.
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I realized after the fact that you never gave a conclusion. My apologies.
Table-ized A.I.
Like they needed to start even younger. Conspiracy theorists get your tinfoil hats a-ready, could this be a ploy to make more on drugs? But, hey, education is education and it is all beneficial even if we American's find T-n-A more offensive than gunplay and death. I'm just waiting for the first "noob" video on youtube from one, or REAL Nigerian scams from Nigeria. :)
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Maybe we can come up with the One Penis Per Slashdotter program to fix that problem. Maybe it will run Linux. Maybe these things will end up as our new overlords. Maybe they'll get shut down after people realize they're being used for porn. I can't go on.
Because GP forgot that rather important point!
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Surely this is a dangerous precedent? Who is going to decide what should be filtered?
... it's the same old discussion about censorship all over again!
Some people find pornography offensive. Others find (choose your flavour) politics offensive, others find (choose your flavour) religion offensive.
And so on
What a great way to teach kids how to use computers by trying to block access to the things they want most.
This proposed addition of a porn filter is completely, though accidentally, genius. Now people will have to learn things about computers they normally wouldn't have had to know about just to circumvent these filters.
Furthermore, who are we to impose our moral "values" on these people? What if their society doesn't believe that porn should be blocked? Did anyone ask them what they wanted?
For starters, ALL of the countries in africa have very different moral values than west. In many countries there is no concept of "obscenity" and sex is not a taboo. They dont even care if people go around naked in many parts.
Such a filter is plainly and blatantly an imposition of moral values - nothing else. Noone has the right to do it.
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1) This *will* eventually lead to development in technology. It is now inevidable.
2) This *will* lead to "liberalization" of religious views. The catholic church has *nothing* on SERVER, and it's infinite supply of dirty pictures.
3) Maybe, just maybe, this might help stave off overpopulation. I, for one, probably wouldn't have had my vasectomy had it not been for my porn fueled clearheaded thinking (thank you autopr0n!)...
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I think that the discussion about kids using donated
OLPC for porn surfing and possible filters are quite
typical for the present time.
But how did they find out that they surfed porn in
the first place?
Of course fitting laptops with filters will just teach children that pornography, and even sex, is bad and that it needs to be suppressed. And it will teach them that censorship is normal and good.
It's very disturbing that people need to impose their own Western perversions on third world countries. I never hear these same hypocrites talk about banning or filtering religious Web sites.
The bushmen of the Kalahari run around starkers and so do the bush women.
If you NEED the OLPC project, you probably have better things than clothes to spend your few bucks a week, or a month, on...
You're not going to shock the children.
You're going to make them homesick.
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Unless porn is banned (by school, parents, etc) it gets really, really boring rather quickly. 99.9% of it is lame-ass.
Speak for yourself ;-)
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Seriously... who would've thought... Why was it reported at all? Maybe another title would be better - "Shocking revelation: Nigerian boys also want to see sex"
It's reported because they "look different than us" and "live in a weird place" yet they seem to think like us. Wow, that's some crazy shit - who would have guessed that?
You can learn a lot about a person by what they find surprising.
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Pornography is all about sexual fantasies. Most people don't have sex like the do on a porno movie. An impressionable children might come to believe that having sex like seen on a porno movie is the normal way of having it.
Did you ever see a Playboy as a kid? Did you then expect that all girls would look like centerfolds under their clothes? That would have been... a letdown.
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I think they should also send out therapists. Those children will clearly be traumatised by viewing evil images of naked women.
I expect few people could absorb all that's out there and not be traumatized. There's some seriously messed-up material out there. *weird shuddering sound*
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Sex and sexuality != Porn on websites
You'll have to forgive some of the regulars on Slashdot for not understanding what you're talking about.
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If we start being "responsible" and go filtering the internet in developing countries, then we are off to a bad start. We, especially in the West, seem to like deferring the burden of reality as long as possible and it provides us with nothing but half-developed, immature adults. Childhood is a great thing, and I miss mine that's for sure, but the clarity of being an adult has its own pleasures. The fact of the matter is, pornography exists and teenage boys want to see it. You can filter the internet all you want, you can hide it under counters, hell you can even flat-out ban it, but you'll never overcome the creativity and the ingenuity of the horny teenage boy's mind and that's a fact.
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Porn can be a substitute for the real thing, and if I'm not mistaken they have a serious problem with HIV.