This article was originally published by Mass Private I at Activist Post.
Today, I give you a frightening story about free speech censorship and watchlists just in time for the countdown to Halloween.
A recent article in The Tennessean reveals how the Williamson County School District (WCS) is monitoring students’ free speech and social media posts.
The WCS recently implemented a “threat surveillance program” called Gaggle, which is so invasive and frightening one would be hard-pressed not to call it a “gag” program that limits students’ free speech.
When the WCS was asked to reveal specific details about what Gaggle and authorities are monitoring students’ speech for, they claimed they could not reveal any details “due to federal family protection laws.”
Public & private schools are joining the ranks of alphabet soup surveillance agencies like DHS, the FBI, and the NSA claiming they cannot reveal surveillance details.
The Tennessean was able to shed some light on what Gaggle monitors by saying it, “operates using a mathematical algorithm to identify high-risk words and phrases when students are logged into the district’s server.”
Gaggle’s video was a little more revealing, claiming that they monitor students social media posts 24/7 for things like:
- profanity
- insulting language
- hate speech
- provocative images
- pornography
- drug use
- alcohol use and much more
When school districts and private corporations start monitoring students for things like profanity and insulting language, we should all be worried because it will not end there.
Soon social media providers will monitor everyone.
Parents think school districts have crossed the line with Gaggle.
“I’m concerned about the mining of all the other student-written text, regarding bullying, profanity, or anything offensive. Aren’t kids going to be too nervous to write anything that’s potentially controversial? What kind of education will they get if they’re walking on eggshells not to offend the computer algorithm?” WCS parent Thomas Morgan said.
Gaggle’s monitoring of students is a lot more invasive than what parents are being told.
Gaggle’s “Safety Management Dashboard” allows school staff and law enforcement to identify and track individual students who have the highest number of incidents.
The Gaggle Safety Management Dashboard allows superintendents, principals and other educators who are responsible for student safety to investigate and answer the following questions:
- Which of my schools has the highest amount of incidents?
- What educational tools are my students using most frequently?
- How severe are the incidents Gaggle Safety Representatives discover?
- Has the number of inappropriate incidents increased or decreased over time?
- How does my school or district’s incident rate compare with national averages?
Mr. Morgan was right, students will be walking on eggshells because they will be afraid of getting put on a watchlist.
Gaggle is like Alexa on steroids.
A Gaggle video called “do you know what your students are doing online?” is a damning account of exactly how invasive their threat to free speech is.
Gaggle’s Bloomington, Illinois staff listens to and watches students’ social media content in real-time 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The video also revealed that at least seven school districts are using Gaggle: Oklahoma Public Schools, Cincinnati public schools, Duval public schools, Fort Wayne Community Schools, Johnston County schools, Denver Public schools, and last but not least the Williamson County School District.
The Tennessean revealed a horrific vision of how school board members view monitoring students free speech.
“I don’t think it interferes with free speech. I think it is just like any other employer’s authority to monitor their network,” School board member Eliot Mitchell, 3rd District, an IT executive at a computer systems company said.
When faculty and law enforcement start viewing themselves as employers and students as employees, is it any wonder their free speech is in jeopardy?
What makes Gaggle’s incident tracking system even more disconcerting is that it builds a database of each student’s infraction[s] that will follow them throughout their lives.
Allowing corporations to create databases of our kids’ lives in school is horrendous. Soon no one will be able to escape being put on some type of government/corporate watchlist. That terrifies me.
This system is a refinement of the Stingray iPhone App which has been used by the Amerikan Stasi at all levels for the last 10-15 years. When I lived in a small town in the Peoples Democratic Socialist Republic of Oregon, the Orcs and Orcettes would regularly crash the Mall Zombie parties. This was before the Oregon Sheeple voted to legalize Latin Lettuce. They were making all kinds of busts.
The Mall Zombies were clueless(pun intended). Then it came out in a slip of the tongue from one of the local Orcs that they had Stingray. Good argument for a burner phone or some other form of commo, eh?
They told us about a Milgram and Stanford Prison experiment, firstly.
Secondly, I refused to condemn the prisoner, in a mock trial, based on hearsay, conjecture, but nothing to put him, physically, at the scene of a crime.
Counter-intuitively, the tie-dye, hippy-hair teacher went postal, and I nearly failed the course.
What counts as an infraction, against the listening device?
Free speech eliminated on the internet is par for the course. The only place left to exhibit opposition is in public, but say the unpolitically correct even there and spies will rat you out. Facial recognition gaining access to internet is all but complete. Every word typed is stored for later profiling. I know and I just don’t care.
I wouldn’t make it through one day of today’s public schools with all their BS. I would happily get expelled. No way I could ever fit into their world.
Sick, peeping toms spying on kids. I dare some perverted freak to try this with my grandkids.
What is said and done today will be a social credit score tomorrow.
Children should be taught not to use their true names. They should invent a new name each semester and share it only with their best friends. The community should begin cutting school funding with each attack on freedom of speech.
Each period required about 10-15min of meaningless busywork, if you were well fed and well rested. You just bring a book, or some quiet kind of entertainment, as though you couldn’t get out of jury duty. Many people were passing, drunk and loaded.
A day’s worth of course material could be fit into roughly 1 1/2 hrs of homeschooling, or in far shorter makeup classes, or in one single diploma test, some were saying.
When my generation was put through this, as though it was something serious, you were a stupid kid, or your parents were evil.
History will remember this as a Dickensian sort of holding pin for the poor or unwanted, like a bread line, workhouse, or orphanage — gopher skeletons, green water, and maggots in the old food. Prison intake. The belly of it run as a prison is run by the inmates, with guards enabling, screwing, buying and selling drugs.
I did not embellish, one iota.
Imagine woodshop in a jail, and you’ll get the idea, here.
Public schools are NOT for Education.
That is Not their purpose.
USA public schools are for NWO Commie Indoctrination.
These schools are Overseen and Staffed by NWO Leftist Communist.
The CORE cirriculum is desgned to dumb children down.
Communism is alive and well in Ft Worth Texas. A Ft Worth teacher dared to tweet President Trump and request, “The US Laws concerning immigration should be enforced”. The Teacher was fired.
Only the -Leftist -NWO Communist -Queer -Black -Mexican, viewpoint is allowed in Amerikka. Your right to free speech no longer is allowed in your “changed” Amerikka.
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Public schools are NOT for Education.
That is Not their purpose.
USA public schools are for NWO Commie Indoctrination.
These schools are Overseen and Staffed by NWO Leftist Communist.
The CORE cirriculum is desgned to dumb children down.
Communism is alive and well in Ft Worth Texas. A Ft Worth teacher dared to tweet President Trump and request, “The US Laws concerning immigration should be enforced”. The Teacher was fired.
Only the -Leftist -NWO Communist -Queer -Black -Mexican, viewpoint is allowed in Amerikka. Your right to free speech no longer is allowed in your “changed” Amerikka.
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Netflix has the story of the capture of Ted the University mail criminal, using word recognition technology for the first time.
Netflix has a time travel story about the Jacobin revolution in Scotland and Ireland where the commie Jacobins tried to put their King back on the throne but only succeeded in wiping out the Irish/Scots known as Highlanders.
In Tennessee during the 1950s and 1960s The Highland Institute educated Communists including Rosa Parks (back of the bus fame) and Martin Luther King Jr.
Everywhere a street is renamed after King it is just a Communist marking it as under Communist control.
Communists bypass the parents. They don’t educate your children. In Communist Russia, “hate speech” was punishable by the death penalty.
Today in Europe, “hate speech” can get you put in prison for years.
Take away your children’s computers and “smartphone”.
Homeschool or leave them with a trusted relative if you must work outside the home.
Have you ever read the Protocols of the Learned Elders? Written before the “Russian” Revolution, before world war one, before the dumbing down of the schools. It may be a forgery but if it is a forgery it doesn’t explain how the author could have been so prophetically accurate. Perhaps it was Divine Inspiration.
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The Protocols make the French and American, revolutionary wars sound like a 3ewish conspiracy.
Protocol 1, referring to the French slogan —
“Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses of the people the words ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’, words many times repeated since these days by stupid poll-parrots who, from all sides around, flew down upon these baits and with them carried away the well-being of the world…”
In the Declaration of Independence, “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them…”
In Protocol 1, “The abstractness of the word ‘freedom’ made it possible to convince the mob that the government is nothing else than a manager, representing the owner, that is to say, the nation, and can be discarded like a worn-out pair of gloves.”