Poor sods – far-right material there, far-left material here on this subreddit.
Nothing new, remember coming across the same when i was at school 20 years ago. This does highlight the importance of critical thinking skill education though, kids should have the tools they need to contextualise what they’re seeing out there, far-right or otherwise
It’s awful; just have to pray Musk isn’t allowed to buy Twitter as the platform would begin to promote so much far-right material if he does. All I can say is thank God for TikTok, a truly neutral and balanced platform.
It’s not just children
I remember a few years back at uni I was doing some research on wolves in mythology for a presentation I think I was researching into Little Red Riding hood and I came along some weird white suprematist pagan website
Also the time I was researching the history of zoos and was doing some brief reading on the Age of Enlightenment and was on a website that seemed pretty normal and then right near the bottom veered off into some weird fundamentalist Christian stuff
And also when researching Evolution there’s a chance you’re going to run into ‘evolution isn’t real’ websites that appear fairly academic on the surface but they’re not.
But at least its not lefty loony stuff about being a decent human being right? I mean we want an army of easily manipulated sociopaths.
According to the guardian anything center of the far left is far right.
Children come across far left material in the class room when taught CRT.
We had the Jolly Rogers Cook Book which now would probably get you 10 year stretch
It’s worse now that you get targeted videos and content. You click on one video for research or out of morbid curiosity and the algorithms recommend you far right videos for months afterwards. Adults get sucked in easily enough, kids even more so. It does not help that they are not old enough and experienced enough to realise what is happening to them and how inaccurate that material is.
Almost as if this is a plan being enacted in bad faith. Almost.
Children seeing weird shit on the internet is nothing new, hopefully this isn’t used as an excuse for more silly laws which try to regulate the internet
Schoolkids should not be researching topics that rely on access to primary historical material and an adult level judgement of motives and behaviour. This is beyond naive.
If you want kids to learn about the Holocaust, put some material into their hands (Anne Frank is the standard, but there are others), or send them to a specific web site.
I was writing my A-Level assessment on Hitler’s rise to power, ended up copy pasting a link without actually look at the link, turns out it was from derfurher.com
Perhaps if we taught some critical thinking skills so they could identify it for what it was that would be a solution. Oh no I see your going with the hand the gov more ammunition for its mad internet censorship laws great great
They will come across material of all kinds when they research. That’s kinda the point. It’s rather hard to hide things on an open Internet.
What matters is teaching people to be able to tell apart the real from the bullshit and form own opinions.
Gen Z, can confirm. Now in college but holy shit, it could have been so much worse. Thankfully I now am more centrist after realizing this
No shit, they see it in the news too, can’t really ban a mix of ideas, they gotta be taught how to filter it
Attempt to build pressure to bring in more legislation to censor the internet…
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“Won’t somebody think of the children?!?” I don’t know… how about their parents? If it’s on school grounds surely they should have firewalls etc.
“In one example cited during the debate, a teacher described how pupils searching the internet for information about the Holocaust for their homework were as likely to find articles written by Holocaust deniers as genuine historical account”
An insane claim, that’s straight up not true at all.
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Because the entire internet seems to try and push it on you
[https://www.conservatives.com/](https://www.conservatives.com/) ?
Poor sods – far-right material there, far-left material here on this subreddit.
Nothing new, remember coming across the same when i was at school 20 years ago. This does highlight the importance of critical thinking skill education though, kids should have the tools they need to contextualise what they’re seeing out there, far-right or otherwise
It’s awful; just have to pray Musk isn’t allowed to buy Twitter as the platform would begin to promote so much far-right material if he does. All I can say is thank God for TikTok, a truly neutral and balanced platform.
It’s not just children
I remember a few years back at uni I was doing some research on wolves in mythology for a presentation I think I was researching into Little Red Riding hood and I came along some weird white suprematist pagan website
Also the time I was researching the history of zoos and was doing some brief reading on the Age of Enlightenment and was on a website that seemed pretty normal and then right near the bottom veered off into some weird fundamentalist Christian stuff
And also when researching Evolution there’s a chance you’re going to run into ‘evolution isn’t real’ websites that appear fairly academic on the surface but they’re not.
But at least its not lefty loony stuff about being a decent human being right? I mean we want an army of easily manipulated sociopaths.
According to the guardian anything center of the far left is far right.
Children come across far left material in the class room when taught CRT.
We had the Jolly Rogers Cook Book which now would probably get you 10 year stretch
It’s worse now that you get targeted videos and content. You click on one video for research or out of morbid curiosity and the algorithms recommend you far right videos for months afterwards. Adults get sucked in easily enough, kids even more so. It does not help that they are not old enough and experienced enough to realise what is happening to them and how inaccurate that material is.
Almost as if this is a plan being enacted in bad faith. Almost.
Children seeing weird shit on the internet is nothing new, hopefully this isn’t used as an excuse for more silly laws which try to regulate the internet
Schoolkids should not be researching topics that rely on access to primary historical material and an adult level judgement of motives and behaviour. This is beyond naive.
If you want kids to learn about the Holocaust, put some material into their hands (Anne Frank is the standard, but there are others), or send them to a specific web site.
I was writing my A-Level assessment on Hitler’s rise to power, ended up copy pasting a link without actually look at the link, turns out it was from derfurher.com
Perhaps if we taught some critical thinking skills so they could identify it for what it was that would be a solution. Oh no I see your going with the hand the gov more ammunition for its mad internet censorship laws great great
They will come across material of all kinds when they research. That’s kinda the point. It’s rather hard to hide things on an open Internet.
What matters is teaching people to be able to tell apart the real from the bullshit and form own opinions.
Gen Z, can confirm. Now in college but holy shit, it could have been so much worse. Thankfully I now am more centrist after realizing this
No shit, they see it in the news too, can’t really ban a mix of ideas, they gotta be taught how to filter it
Attempt to build pressure to bring in more legislation to censor the internet…
​
“Won’t somebody think of the children?!?” I don’t know… how about their parents? If it’s on school grounds surely they should have firewalls etc.
“In one example cited during the debate, a teacher described how pupils searching the internet for information about the Holocaust for their homework were as likely to find articles written by Holocaust deniers as genuine historical account”
An insane claim, that’s straight up not true at all.