Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ dapunka on Monday 23 July 2007 15:25 : \____
>
>> 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.
>
> I posted a link to the article yesterday (no, I wasn't hising this story), but
> soon afterwards I saw a batch of stories claiming it was coordinated FUD.
> These stories came from major sites, not a Digg comment, which I just happened
> to quote here.
>
> Saying nasty thing about x is easy if you an find a case with some probability
> y (e.g. the chance of a child punching in the address of an adult site).
> Whether this can be turned into news is another matter altogether and it
> depends on hidden agendas/ Be aware that the headline could be "OLPC gets
> fileting features" with a short mention in the article of a story of some
> mischievous kids. The original article was composed to shock, just like all
> those articles (placement) where Microsoft talks patents. They add unnecessary
> drama and they are unbalanced.
>
It's all a bit "so what". The internet has porn on it. It's true.
This is *nothing* to do with the OLPC project at all.
Kids can be starving, but that doesn't matter so long as a profit is
made.
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