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OLPC Used to Browse Porn

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the extracurricular-activities dept.

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.

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  1. Inaccurate by crossmr · · Score: 5, Informative

    This wasn't done on OLPC laptops. Not only did digg have the story before you, it was correct.
    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/booby-trap/kids-use-us+ donated-laptops-to-surf-the-porn-of-course-280715. php

    The OLPC manufacturers were just asked about what they'd do. That was there only relation to the story.