Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young
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.
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Headline says porn but the only thing on that is:
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.
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.
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
https://sh.itjust.works/post/35975291
Believe it or not once again "organized" religion is the problem.
Yeah, American Christian’s NEVER end up focusing on hyper violence through their religion. /s
Stop acting like the problem is religion-specific instead of empirically inherent to religion.
You’re either being willfully ignorant or you’re an idiot.
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.
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.
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.
Stop promoting Christo-fascism.
Criticizing Christianity isn’t aiding terrorism you sausage hahaha
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.
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.
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.