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OLPC Used to Browse Porn
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.
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.
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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!!!
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 ----
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.
"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.....
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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I guess old Senator what's his name was right, eh kiddies?
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.
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.
If anything, they are a better target for the OLPC, because these children can now get a better education to change their own government when their generation grows up.
Maybe they'll chill out watching porn and stop sending all those email scams.
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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.
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.
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 ----
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.
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.
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And the AIDS epidemic is solved!
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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.
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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.
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.
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?
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...
[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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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.