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In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched!

posted by martyb on Saturday June 13 2015, @06:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the watch-out dept.

turgid sent in news of a report in the The Guardian:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by wisnoskij on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:50PM

    by wisnoskij (5149) <{jonathonwisnoski} {at} {gmail.com}> on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:50PM (#195896)

    It sounds like a jihobbyist is as far from radical as you can get. It sounds like we are just punishing them for wrong opinions now.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @10:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @10:34PM (#195908)

    > It sounds like a jihobbyist is as far from radical as you can get. It sounds like we are just punishing them for wrong opinions now.

    First they came for the pedophiles
    Then they came for the muslim children
    ...

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday June 14 2015, @02:00PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 14 2015, @02:00PM (#196121) Journal

    I hear that IS have formed a retro 1950s style rock 'n' roll band. They're called Jihaddywaddy.