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The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers
(theintercept.com)
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So this isn't about actual gamers, this about bad actors looking for chuds to recruit through games, which is not a new concept. It used to be chat rooms, and then forums, then social media, now games (as many have social features).
I mean the US military, among others, have been using gaming to recruit people already.
Grooming. Non-sexual grooming. Just wonderful.
I was in the Australian airforce cadets from 12 until 18 at which point i went to join the airforce but got am apprenticeship at the same time that paid more.
Many of my friends enlisted though.
Its certainly grooming, though
I mean they show up to schools to tell kids about military careers and jrotc and stuff.
Thanks GW Bush!
Are they pretending the JROTC doesn't exist? The US military absolutely targets minors under the age of seventeen for recruitment.
I think that's the point, not ignoring it. They don't have them literally sign up, but they do everything they legally can to capture them.
The recruitment starts the minute they pressure kids into worshipping a piece of colored fabric.