Small wonder that U.S. parents put filters on their children’s laptops. These are children who haven’t grown up with the technology we are used to in the U.S., yet they knew enough to surf to precisely the wrong sites …
Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday.
A representative of the One Laptop Per Child aid group was quoted as saying that the computers, part of a pilot scheme, would now be fitted with filters. Source: Reuters
I was surprised, but my wife wasn’t. I suppose, naively, I figured these OLPCs just wouldn’t get that sort of use … now, since these kids are obviously tech-savvy, I wonder how long before those filters are bypassed? 
