Remember when you were a kid and you weren't allowed to look at National Geographic 'cos it had pictures of primitive tribes who often had the bloody nerve to encourage their ladies to walk around without whalebone corsets? Well, now it would seem that Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have been using them to explore pornographic Web sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported last week.
NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on many of the children's laptops. "Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone a bit "tits up" as the pupils seem able to freely browse adult sites containing explicit sexual materials, all of which expose lots and lots of naughty bits" 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. But even so, they will still have to be fitted with an anti-smoking health warning.
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