Welcome to our world. Shut your eyes.
The Internet was based on goodwill. Everybody wanted to share, everybody wanted to help. That isn’t true anymore. The Internet reflects our world. Some people are not motivated by a desire to help other people. If they can make money, they will hurt people if necessary. Even children.
Reuters reports that some Nigerian primary schoolchildren have discovered their laptops, provided for less than $100 by One Laptop Per Child, can access porn site, prompting a response that “OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) needs to implement OBSPT (One Big Stick Per Teacher).”
To save money (remember, the goal is less than $100 each). OLPC originally wasn’t going to include Internet. But the creators wanted to share the wonders of the digital world with the developing world, so they made it happen.
It reminds me that, like the digital world, the real world is not inhabited solely by people who want to help our children. That’s why I want to raise my children myself, instead of letting the electronic forces do it.
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