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It discusses software being marketed by several companies to UK (and US) schools to monitor the internet communications of pupils, some as young as four, for signs of (religious) "radicalisation."
The software simplistically monitors for lists of words and phrases such as "Jihobbyist," dodgy organisations, and the names of various ISIS propaganda videos.
For example: John Cantlie, War on Islam, Jihobbyist, Pogrom, YODO, Storm Front, Kuffs, Message to America.
When use of such a term is detected, a screenshot can be forwarded to a teacher. Perhaps the teacher should then dial 999 and ask for the police?
A jihobbyist is someone who sympathises, but rather than getting themselves stuck somewhere warm and sunny like Iraq or Syria, they instead only cheer them on from the comfort of their own home. You learn something new every day.
I suspect some companies are going to make a lot of money out of this — and young children are going to have much fun winding up the teachers.
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday June 13 2015, @07:45PM
They gotta throw a "White" one in there for the sake of political correctness. Funny thing is that it was England's political correctness that led to their infestation of walking Durka-Durka bombs (and hence, this situation) in the first place.
Software in place or not, students should not be able to view StormFront at K-12 schools and if they can and do so willingly then they are asking for it, because at that point they might as well be browsing porn.
Jesus, do K-12 schools nowadays just let students do whatever the fuck they want nowadays?
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday June 15 2015, @11:58AM
Strange, I hadn't noticed the waves of suicide bombings in the UK resulting from this infestation of "Durka-Durka bombs". Can you perhaps point to some news stories?
We had one suicide bombing on the tube, and another couple that failed due to stupidity. That's it. The IRA was much more effective and deadly, mostly because they were not stupid enough to kill themselves and take all the valuable knowledge about blowing stuff up to the grave every time. Well, that and they were just generally less stupid because they spent less time praying for 72 virgins and more learning how to commit acts of terror properly.
Islamic terrorism in the UK is a bad joke.
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