You know it's a pretty slow summer Friday on the Reuters news beat when one of the biggest stories making the rounds focuses on the shocking revelation that Nigerian students are using their shiny new
OLPC XOs to do what hormonal young men have being doing since the dawn of time: look at naked women. The esteemed wire service's African correspondent breathlessly reports that a journalist from the News Agency of Nigeria had seen pornography on a few children's notebooks, which led the country's publication of record to surmise that "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." Why, the NAN report makes it sound like these kids are spending their days at some seedy adult bookstore and not even attending school at all. Luckily for the porn-addicted youngsters, administrators of the pilot program are aware of this snowballing crisis, and will soon be installing filters that will very likely block out a slew of legitimate pages while still allowing curious students to see all the flesh they want on Myspace.
Will someone please think of the children?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted Jul 20th 2007 6:15PM
Will someone please tell OLPC to filter out the "DIY: Pipe Bombs" sites too? We don't need that shit here.
A firewall will do better when we talking about the "BLOCKING" those sites,
since it uses a database, which can catch the new sites as well.
The internet is for porn.
Oh, god bless Avenue Q.
Grab your...
"i have a fast connection, so i dont have to waaaait"
lol classic
um, you spelled pr0n wrong....
Thats why they run Linux.
All hail the 'LubeTube'!
That's hilarious haha
That's why it runs Linux.
I couldn't do anything more than lol when I read this and imagined at these kids typing "www.porn.com" on their green OLPC XD. Amateurs...j/k. But well, everything has a cost, and that's the cost of globalization I guess. Hope they do block it, they don't need something else to distract them from school.
well, one way of looking at is:
If they're looking at virtual women, then at least they're not getting real one's pregnant... or worse...
It was only a matter of time...
On a more serious and off topic note... does anyone know where to get one of these? I'd love to get a hold of one of these OXs.
get a asus eeepc 701 it does the same thing and cost 200$
Why? are you a starving kid in africa without a penny willing to put up with the worse laptop ever made? (albeit green)
"How can I get one of these?"
Become depressingly poor.
Now all they need is an external Seagate hard drive to store it all on!
ever see the movie mash?
ho-jon learned to read just fine.
How long before they start trying to scam us through e-mails?
Of course. No one ever thought these would be used for downloading porn or sending out 419 scam spam.
Wait, we are giving Nigeria MORE computers?
OLPC - Training a New Generation of Nigerian Scammers and Porn Fiends.
Is there a pool anywhere on whether Napolean Negroponte will eventually have any discussions with MSNBC's Chris Hanson?
Breaking News - Computers can be used to look at porn on the internet. More on this at 11.
The pRon sites should be blocked. These computers are important educational and communication tools. The children should be taught to read and write in English well. I'm sick and tired of all the Nigerian emails I get with poor English.
Now with the OLPCs, we should get more emails that have proper grammar. That should make the world a better place.
Now we will get phishing spam from people claiming to be Nigerian porn stars
If you are getting scam emails with POOR ENGLISH...there are more chances they are not coming from Nigerian scammers...
I hope this doesn't lead to rampant overpopulation.
Doh.
What? What are you talking about? The world is already severely overpopulated.
Overpopulated?? Have you ever been to KANSAS?
I rest my case.
Wait, this is a good thing. Lets get these youngsters addicted to porn, too busy jacking off to try to pathetically scam us. Whoopee! : D
One
Lap-dance
Per
Customer...
These things need to be recalled immediately and destroyed. But then again, it's to be expected. Everything that's supposedly designed to "help" our children ends up threatening their innocence instead. That's why I've kept my kids sealed in a concrete bunker for their entire lives. There they are protected from all the dangers of the outside world. No pornography, no vulgarity, no violence... not even any of those vile photons of light which enable them to see obscene things. Yes, my children will eventually see the world as they should - completely oblivious to any aspect of reality.
Mmmm. Would be great if people can donate the bandwidth charge to these people so that they can really watch the porn for free.
LoLZ.. it can be done better on this laptop either with more ease hehe
http://tinyurl.com/23qcvg
well we've had porn for ages and it hasn't turned out to be all that bad. Compared to all other countries without the benefit of porn.
What's up with all these Nigerian-bashing comments? It isn't really a good things to generalize so recklessly. I'm nigerian and i make a good living legally, and there are lots more like me.
I'm willing to bet most of y'all get more emails promoting viagra and selling free 'sex enhancers' than any 419 emails. Last i checked, most spam mails come from the Western countries (with the US playing a major role there). You don't see me calling all Americans 'spammers'.
Ah, well. C'est la vie...
Not that I pretend to speak for the Nobel Laureates who post on Engadget, but I think they are not talking about actual Nigerians.
There seems to be an incredibly mature and thoughtful tradition on blogs to purposely conflate terminology in posts with terminology familiar to the alleged insider community. I could cite examples of this from within the last 24 hours on more than one blog.
On the other hand, maybe my sarcastometer is so out of calibration that it fails to ping on your nom de guerre and charming colloquialisms / syntax errors.
Is that Jessica Rabbit?
I mean, that sucks, but seriously, who didn't see this coming?
Sucks? what do you mean with that?
Any one catch the "snowballing" insinuation? lolz
@Wwhat
I mean it sucks cause they were meant for educational purposes, but they're (unsurprisingly) being used to surf porn.
I did not mean Jessica Rabbit sucks. Unless you mean literally.
I meant to say that the word 'sucks' is a bit overstated, the thing can still be used for education, just like your computer can regardless of your pr0n collection.
Why would it 'suck' that african kids have access to porn too like the rest of the world? seems a bit unfair.
Okay, point taken.
Why would anyone censor a picture of Jessica Rabbit? She's a cartoon, ferchrissake.
Well, what did you expect from these savages; to do homework and gain knowledge? No, these kids will continue to develop as they have; in a society where rape is common-place, AIDS is bountiuful, and porn is just an F9 away.
Also, sauce on that Jessica Rabbit picture
Savages? Just a tad bit racist huh?
this is what you call
......PWNED (porn) XD or rather, XO
hahahhahahah....
......
sorry... that was dry.
"Dry?" Other words popped to mind, but whatever.