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In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched!
A report in the Guardian [theguardian.com] 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 IS propaganda videos.
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?
No, a jihobbyist isn't an Islamofascist performing a bowel movement, it's someone who sympathises with them but only cheers them on from the comfort of their own home rather than getting stuck in themselves in somewhere warm and sunny like Iraq or Syria. 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.
