[OLPC-Games] Violent games on the OLPC Activities page

Luke Paireepinart rabidpoobear at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 18:02:41 EST 2008


Antoine van Gelder wrote:
> Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
>   
>> On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> My only objection is that Doom be on the same page as Squeak, Library,
>>> Speak, etc. I have no problem with it being on a page that explains  
>>> that
>>> activities w/ violence are not endorsed by OLPC.
>>>       
>> Who picks what is "endorsed" and what isn't?
>>     
>
>
> Noah,
>
> Given that this is an education project I would hazard a guess that the 
> only endorsements which are likely to be taken seriously by anyone of 
> even moderate intelligence would be those endorsements which are made by 
> educators of good repute ?
>
> If that's okay with you ?
>   
Why the heck are you guys picking on Noah?
He has a good point and he's arguing it well.
If you start getting scrappy it just pisses everyone off.
We don't need any flame wars.



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