After his arrest, investigators found the 12-year-old had been gorging on videos of decapitation and torture, including 1,739 jihadi videos and bomb-making tutorials.
The boy’s descent began with Quran searches and led to encrypted chats and ultraviolent propaganda from extremist groups like Islamic State. French prosecutor Paul-Edouard Lallois warned he risked becoming a “completely dehumanized soldier.”
Across Europe, minors are increasingly appearing on terror radars, with France’s anti-terror unit charging 19 minors in 2023 alone.
Extremist content is just a click away, with radicalization sometimes beginning through violent pornography or a fascination for gory images, leading to jihadi decapitations.
Reading this is like reading anti-drug propaganda from the 90’s. Like, sure there are concerns about young people, especially boys, getting radicalized online. But the coverage is so lurid and skewed that it loses credibility.
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Two days ago an article about this was posted by The Guardian. It’s so bad in Britain that a counter-terrorism group will start gathering data on boys and young men who are “consuming online material about killings or sexual abuse (of girls/women)”.
Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums
online searches about Islam after an aunt gave him a Quran as a gift, says the boy’s lawyer. From there, more searching, automated algorithms that steer users’ online experiences and the boy’s curiosity ultimately led him to encrypted chats and ultraviolent propaganda pumped out by Islamic State militants and other extremist groups that are worming their way via apps, video gaming and social media into the minds of the very young.
Headline says porn but the only thing on that is:
For some kids, the process starts with violent pornography or a fascination for gory images, counterterrorism investigators say. From there, more clicks can lead to grisly murder videos from Mexican drug cartels and ultimately to jihadi decapitations, throat-slitting and torture,
So I think it’s stupid click bait.
A bit sensationalist, yes. I didn’t read it, but I hope it made some link between the hormone drops associated with shocking imagery and sounds and the cognitive high one receives in response to the ensuing neurosynaptic flood.
They’re basically addicts with the drugs being manufactured and distributed in-house; all they need is the evermore violent and shocking A/V catalyst to inject the proverbial needle.
Idk about porn but on watchpeopledie there is clearly too much teenager. And there is sadly a lot of content posted by extremist / terrorist organisation like isis or daesh. They are doing it on purpose and are probably ready to discuss with edgy teenager.
I think kids and teens shouldnt be on internet. Like at all.
Believe it or not once again “organized” religion is the problem.
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Yeah, American Christian’s NEVER end up focusing on hyper violence through their religion. /s
cut to Alex Jones, imperial march playing in the background, quoting Star Wars villains in a rant about what he imagines doing to anybody he disagrees with
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Stop acting like the problem is religion-specific instead of empirically inherent to religion.
No rational person believes that.
You’re either being willfully ignorant or you’re an idiot.
Stop defending terrorism.
Rational and religious lol. Go ahead and tell me what the majority religion was in Germany in the 1940s. I’ll wait while you Google it.
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Christianity is rigid about charity and being good to each other.
Right, that’s exactly what fundamentalist christians are known for. Not at all for sending conversion missions abroad, child abuse and witholding basic human rights from people who refuse to convert.
Outside of your echo chamber, that is actually what they are known for. You’re going to be in for a rude awakening soon if you insist upon continuing to refuse to engage with the actual, real, world.
Thats just bullshit, christians invented crusades and conquered half the planet in order to convert heathens and see what zionists are doing in gaza right now.
You do understand that your ‘clever’ ignorance isn’t actually going to be ignored by the world, right?
Stop aiding terrorism.
Criticizing Christianity isn’t aiding terrorism you sausage hahaha
Stop promoting Christo-fascism.
This is what you get when parents absent-mindedly assume handing their kid a smartphone when they’re noisy is all it takes to raise them.
100%, parents need to be involved in their kids life now more than ever, not treat them like a roommate. Kids need to be guided not given a phone/tablet to keep busy. But society doesn’t support this kind of parenting.
You needn’t take it any further, sir. You’ve proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I’ve learned me lesson, sir. I’ve seen now what I’ve never seen before. I’m cured! Praise god!
This has been going on for a long time
The mini-series “Adolescence” was spot on about this issue.
At one point the father says to his wife he thought their son was safe being in his room on the internet … when in reality he was accessing all the dark web abuse he could find.
Glad you’re staying current, AP.
Hey did they ever find the WMD??
Sorry? What? I’m not following any of this.
