Free laptops help kids juggle smut, studies
Now that we are breaking down the digital divide by getting computers to children in impoverished regions of the world, let's take a look at what the kids are doing with their new laptops. It turns out they are using them the same way most of the people surfing the Net use them: searching for pornography.
A reporter for the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) found that pornographic images were stored on many of the laptops donated by the One Laptop Per Child project.
However, an observer of the One Laptop Per Child project questioned the news value of the story and the motivation behind the report.
It's probably also worth noting that the school children are also using the laptops for their stated purpose: education.
"To focus on it this much means that the reporter really wanted a headline grabbing story or is against the project on a personal level," Wayan Vota wrote on an OLPC news site.
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