Poor Kids Need Porn Too

This is so funny I laughed out loud when I read it. The stupid program, OLPC, or One Laptop Per Child, which is a waste of a billion dollars, is a bleeding heart effort by liberals to give technology to the world’s poorest children.

So when these little skulls full of impoverished mush get their multi-cultural hands on the windup laptops, what do they do with them? Read a new novel? Learn math? Surely they use the devices to learn a foreign language? Nope. They download porn.

From Reuters here:

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.

NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children’s laptops.

“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,” NAN said.

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.

The rep from OLPC lied through his teeth with the claim of a filter. The devices do not have enough memory to store the comprehensive lists of porn sites on the Internet. Only gateway filters will work to eliminate the “thirst for knowledge” these kids crave.

Next thing you know these brats will be sending Nigerian 419 spam scams and updating their myspace page.