Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young (apnews.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 14:15
https://lemmy.world/post/28170705

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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al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com on 13 Apr 14:56 next collapse

Believe it or not once again “organized” religion is the problem.

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Cruxifux@feddit.nl on 13 Apr 15:12 next collapse

Yeah, American Christian’s NEVER end up focusing on hyper violence through their religion. /s

[deleted] on 13 Apr 15:13 next collapse
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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 15:38 collapse

Stop acting like the problem is religion-specific instead of empirically inherent to religion.

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 13 Apr 15:43 next collapse

No rational person believes that.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl on 13 Apr 15:46 next collapse

You’re either being willfully ignorant or you’re an idiot.

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 13 Apr 15:54 collapse

Stop defending terrorism.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl on 13 Apr 15:56 collapse

lol how is pointing out that Christianity also creates violence defending terrorists? You’re fucking deranged man. Stop trying to promote christofascism through sheer force of stupidity.

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 13 Apr 15:58 collapse

Insults aren’t going to make people blind to reality dude, no matter how warm and fuzzy they make you feel inside.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl on 13 Apr 16:18 collapse

Look at the votes here dude. Literally nobody agrees with you. Just shut up and take the L.

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Cruxifux@feddit.nl on 13 Apr 16:54 collapse

It’s always funny to me when people who believe in magic try to condescend to me about reality. You’re a hilarious person.

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 13 Apr 17:01 collapse

Do you realize how blatantly obvious it is to identify someone who has put exactly zero effort into understanding religions? Just because you surround yourself with virtual yes-men doesn’t make your perceptions correct.

Keep that up and you might end up making a fool of yourself, like all those seniors who went out to protest Tesla dealerships, not realizing that today’s youth don’t actually like them or their ideals very much, having to grow up in the fallout of their progressive utopia.

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works on 13 Apr 18:45 collapse

Pfft. You have no idea what you’re talking about. All religions are personal beliefs that can be co-opted by powerfull forces and changed into abhorrent cults that end up murdering people.

Christianity is at the forefront of that. Forced/enforced adherence to ‘shared commonality’ doesn’t make for a free people. It only helps birth more cogs for the machine. And you pointing specifically at Islam simply shows your inherent racism and simple lack of knowledge and wisdom.

al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com on 13 Apr 21:36 collapse

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.

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 14 Apr 01:34 collapse

en.wikipedia.org/…/Nazi_persecution_of_the_Cathol…

al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com on 14 Apr 03:43 next collapse

“Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother, Klara Hitler, and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church”- Germany was like 90 percent Christian lol.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl on 14 Apr 14:07 collapse

They were anti catholic. Because they were protestants. Like… do you think these are good points for what you’re trying to argue? Because they are proving the opposite point you’re trying to argue, you fucking donkey.

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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 16:06 collapse

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.

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 13 Apr 16:09 collapse

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.

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 16:35 next collapse

Maybe try reading the news sometimes

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 13 Apr 16:39 collapse

Try reality.

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 17:22 collapse

Exactly. Good luck with your attemps.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl on 14 Apr 16:51 collapse

No, they aren’t, literally only Christian’s think that, and only about themselves and their specific sects of Christianity. I know, I grew up super Christian, I’ve met them. I’ve been there. And when I gave up the faith and ventured outside the Christian echo chamber I was shocked at the actual reality of how people saw us. How I see them now.

kelpie_returns@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 17:30 collapse

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

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 15:22 collapse

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.

ogmios@sh.itjust.works on 13 Apr 15:26 collapse

You do understand that your ‘clever’ ignorance isn’t actually going to be ignored by the world, right?

Stop aiding terrorism.

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works on 14 Apr 02:08 next collapse

Stop promoting Christo-fascism.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl on 14 Apr 16:49 collapse

Criticizing Christianity isn’t aiding terrorism you sausage hahaha

someguy3@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 15:02 next collapse

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.

My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 15:40 collapse

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.

Eggyhead@fedia.io on 13 Apr 15:31 next collapse

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.

aceshigh@lemmy.world on 14 Apr 18:04 collapse

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.

IAmLamp@fedia.io on 13 Apr 15:36 next collapse

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!

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 16:41 next collapse

This has been going on for a long time

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works on 14 Apr 02:11 collapse

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.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 18:34 next collapse

Glad you’re staying current, AP.

Hey did they ever find the WMD??

ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net on 14 Apr 13:08 collapse

Sorry? What? I’m not following any of this.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net on 13 Apr 23:20 next collapse

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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HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works on 14 Apr 02:03 collapse

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

sh.itjust.works/post/35975291

Lifekraft@jlai.lu on 14 Apr 12:58 collapse

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.