On Jul 25, 2007, at 9:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> this is made much more complex by the fact that XOs will end up in
> countries with very different social taboos, different cultural
> assumptions, and very different legal systems.

Precisely.

> hardwiring censorship/filtering/content-protection into the XO is  
> probably
> antithetical to the educational goals of the project.

Precisely.

> While it is very important to protect kids from some things that  
> they are
> really not cognitively equipped to handle, it is also important to  
> equip
> them with a toolbelt of educational possibilities that can be applied
> freely and without too many crazy restrictions.

... and precisely.


Anyway, I'm pretty comfortable with my thinking about this set of  
problems for FRS and hope to write something up about it soon. Cheers,

--
Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://radian.org
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