Aah, this discussion had to be coming ... :p I see the point that it's problematic to 'propagate' violent material on an educational tool for kids 6-14. On the other side, censoring content is problematic as well.
I feel strongly, that there should be a community discussion, *before* removing anything from [[Activities]]. And if something is/should be removed: 1. We should write up some Activity-Guidelines 2. We might create a subpage for 'censored activities' (?) => What about xo-get? Should it be possible to easily install doom, or to enable a 'censored' repository...? - Chris Bryan Berry wrote: > I feel very strongly that violent games should not be associated with > OLPC. Albert Cahalan points out that games like Doom can teach geometry > and other skills. There are ways to teach those skills w/out involving > violence. I work in Nepal, a country recovering from an 11-year civil > war. Exposure to more violence, real or virtual, is the last thing most > Nepali communities want. > > I removed the Doom activity from the Activities page yesterday and put a > note on the page asking people not to post violent activities to the > page. Doom was added back shortly thereafter and my note was removed. > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities > > People can host such games on their own sites but they should not be > hosted by OLPC. > > We can debate forever whether violent games cause violence. The fact is > many those people (esp. outside the US) whose support we need for OLPC, > think that violent games are damaging to kids. We need to respect that > sentiment. > > Is there an existing wiki policy regarding violent activities? If there > isn't, there should be. > > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
