July 21, 2007
Predictable
Ever heard of the One Laptop Per Child project? OLPC? An MIT-led effort to produce an extremely stripped-down laptop computer for about $100? They're selling them to third-world governments who, ideally, pass them on to kids to give them access to a computer and, most importantly, the internet.
So far, so good. What do you think the kids in question are using the laptops for? If you guessed "surfing for porn" you're right, but you don't win any prizes. Too obvious.
I think I'll post on this soon. The irony of it is that the people at MIT were well aware of this possibility, but deliberately did not put filtering software on the computers in the name of "open access." The open source community can be so stupidly dogmatic at times. It's one of the reasons I stopped contributing to Wikipedia.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at July 22, 2007 12:21 AM