(Stupid itchy trigger finger, fixing last sentence)

You can't censor it COMPLETELY WITHOUT CENSORING THE INTERNET, but it makes me wonder why OLPC is so eager to sell this M-rated game... (cont)

Oh please, Doom? The first one? Bah! Let them play it, they're killing demons from hell not ppl.

"these computers are connected to the internet and the internet is not always child friendly"

There is already a ton of software out there that can help you here...

Doom? Doom's violence is passe' these days. They can definitely handle Doom.

That's the laptop? Couldn't they make it more normal? Did they forget the keyboard?

Wow....just wow.
What is the point of making sure all these kids have access to the internet if these people are just going to try and dictate what they're allowed to see? If you want to completely shield them from this kind of stuff, then don't give them the internet. Simple as that.
All or nothing, folks.

I have an idea, lets give every child a dictionary, but censor out any offensive words, or violent words, or discriminatory words, or.... wait.... won't that just be a blank piece of paper?

I think Doom on the One Laptop Per Child is a stretch for its original purpose. (I thought it was to expose them to new ideas and to educate them). But then again they are children, and frankly if I lived in a poverty stricken mess I wouldnt mind a little escapism in which I was the hero fighting off the hordes of hell.

As for Napal guy, Im sorry your area is been in a 11 year civil war but what right do you have to censor the entire world because of your area. Instead of being the censor monkey how about you inform your community about common concepts of parenting like spending time with your kid and see what they are playing. OMG wait what a horrible idea; that would involve actually interacting with your own spawn, god that would be horrible.

@DeusPayne I think we might still have some common words like a and the, of course I might be able to spell and as dan which looks awfully close to a curse and the -> het might be heat which could be the result of doing something naughty and well a just looks wrong. No I think your right a blank page is the best option.

People are actually annoyed over Doom? Of all games, by today's standards, that is weak. Might as well throw Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Super Mario on there just to get the complete experience. Toss in Sonic while they're at it.

" Exposure to more violence, real or virtual, is the last thing most Nepali communities want."

Then quit killing each other you freakin idiots!!! Log on to an online FPS, frag each other all day, and no one is hurt, you can come back and do it again tomorrow.

A video game is not violence. With the exception of pulled muscles from playing the Wii while drunk, no one gets hurt.

Why don't they just remove it from the PC, then? It's not like theres anything stopping them, and OLPC is forbidden to stop them or they'd be in violation of GPLv3.

Simon Roberts,

Just because they are from Nepal doesn't absolve them from my one rule on games. "Parents, police your own children." They are getting something for free. That doesn't meant hat they HAVE to take it. It doesn't mean that the parents HAVE to let their kids play it. Parents don't HAVE to keep it on the computers if it's on there whent hey get them or if their kids put it on there.

No matter what country you are from or what type of strife is going on there, a parent is still a parent and needs to be responsible for what is kept in their home. If they beleive it is something that will harm their children, uninstall the dang thing.

Simon Roberts, way to over simplify the situation. Yes, Doom is still violent and horrible. But hi, they were in a warzone. They didn't have Saw or Hostel and it's escapism (it should be noted I don't like those movies and the more I see of NGII, the more I don't want to play it), mainly because watching your neighbors lunge collapse to a bullet piercing in real life is not even remotely equatable to video game violence. On this point, you simply fail. And it has nothing to do with Americanizing, period. It's a fucking warzone. You cannot imagine how that could effect children in ways nothing else can.

HOWEVER, from the standpoint of the Nepal guy, the answer is simple. Don't download. Wow, who'd a thunk it? After all, I was disgusted by VT Rampage (or whatever) by it's mere concept. I discovered it's suprisingly easy to avoid content you don't want to partake in. So, to avoid content you don't want is the choice here, not to remove the content from existance. That's the issue everyone is having with this Nepal guy. And frankly put, it doesn't have a damn thing to do with being American as I'm sure you'd find this opinion everywhere on the planet. It's a common sense thing. I may not be into your shit, but I'm not about to force my preferences on you. Respect for the fellow man... goes a long way.

I can see education is, in fact, very much needed there..

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.

Someone needs to instruct this person on how to exit the program.

Problem solved.

I say that what the world needs is a Doom in every PC and a Chicken in every Pot!

Huh, I thought the one Laptop-per-child program got scrapped because a computer chip maker wanted to be the sole provider of chips for the program.

@TK

Ask not what your laptop can do for you, ask what you can do for your laptop.

I suppose my thought originally went along the line of 'Should we then not make SimCity available to countries which have had floods or hurricanes, because iirc, you could make those happen as well as the more 'unique' disasters?'

I do understand what the guy is trying to say, that it might upset younger children and bring back unwanted memories, fair enough, but for him to make that decision for every country involved in this scheme without first going through his workmates in those countries and expressing his feelings and working towards a solution was somewhat reactionary, he is not the only person involved, Nepal is not the only country involved.

I suppose that's where the problem comes in, different countries as well as different people have various ideas on what is acceptable and at what age, it is something that they will have to try to be sensitive towards in both directions, charging in like a bull in a China Shop and deleting reference probably was the worst way to go about it, because it brushed the other members of the wiki up the wrong way, as the reply seems to suggest.

@Colonel Finn

Actually, it didn't work well at all.