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Re: Media Shills Spread Anti-OLPC (Linux) FUD

dapunka <dapunka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Jul 23, 1:35 pm, Hadron <hadronqu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> BearItAll <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >> The porn story did not originate with bloggers.  It originated with the
>> >> News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), which says that one of their reports saw
>> >> the porn on several children's laptops.
>>
>> > Well come on, boys will be boys, of cause they'll have a look, bet you have,
>> > I have, bet we could point at anyone in this news group, hypnotise them and
>> > get a 'Yes I've viewed some porn' out of them.
>>
>> > Have you never heard the kids giggle unexpectedly and gone over to look only
>> > to find after a flurry of activity while you walked over so that they seem
>> > to be giggling at an empty desktop by the time you get there, the quick
>> > flick of the mouse to the 'X' is the modern day hypersensitive right ear,
>> > the one that heard your mum in her slippers on the bottom stair while you
>> > were playing with your john thomas when you were 15.
>>
>> > We've all had a look and so long as it's just kids having a giggle because
>> > they saw their first {fill in a bodily part} then there's no real harm
>> > done.
>>
>> Correct. So you agree that Roy and Mark Kent are twisting and lying yet
>> again?- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> I agree with BearItAll inasmuch that, /if/ some OLPC users have been
> checking out pr0n it's hardly a hold-the-front-page sort of story.  Go

I would agree.

> to any school in the world that contains online computers and teenaged
> boys - if they can find a way to bypass netnanny and look at some
> beaver pix, at beaver pix they will look.  This is hardly a fact that
> harms OLPC - it's about time that kids otherwise deprived of internet
> access can now waste time looking at cheezy pr0n just like kids in the
> so-called "developed" world.
>
> But this doesn't mean I agree that "Roy and Mark are twisting and
> lying yet again".  Maybe some kids used OLPC machines to view
> pornography, maybe they didn't.  If I /cared/ I might look more deeply

Of course they did.

The point is that the Mark and Roy are trying to deny it and blame the
accusations on lying MS shills.


> into the matter and, who knows, maybe I'd find evidence of FUD.
> Wouldn't be the first time such tactics have been used when certain
> vested interests feel threatened.  But I /don't/ care about the
> veracity of the story.  What I care about is the fact that OLPC seems
> to be working, trying to get laptops to kids is "remote" areas -
> laptops that will actually /work/ in those "remote" areas, laptops
> that won't be rendered useless by a lack of electricity.
>
> I /do/ agree with Roy and Mark about one thing: it's sad, and worse
> than sad, that anyone can feel that their interests are threatened by
> the OLPC project.
>

Like who????????????

Hence his lies.

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