{"id":1292277,"date":"2022-02-11T19:37:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T00:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1292277"},"modified":"2022-02-11T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T00:37:50","slug":"virginia-school-district-seeks-social-media-surveillance-system-to-combat-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-school-district-seeks-social-media-surveillance-system-to-combat-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia School District Seeks Social Media Surveillance System to Combat &#039;Hate Speech&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-school-district-seeks-social-media-surveillance-system-to-combat-hate-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1292277&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Loudoun-County-School-Board-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is looking to <a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/incidents\/socialmediasurveillance\/\">implement<\/a> a surveillance and intelligence-gathering service to monitor student, parent, and teacher social media accounts for \u201chate speech\u201d and \u201csocial media threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to documents obtained by Parents Defending Education (PDE), FCPS is looking to set aside $200,000 for a service that will \u201cmonitor social media threats, harassment, hate speech and bullying\u201d by way of \u201cactive listening,\u201d \u201cdeep and dark web sources not visible through traditional search engines,\u201d and \u201cOpen Source Intelligence,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Fairfax-County-Public-Schools-Social-Media-Software-Complete-Documents.pdf\">request<\/a> for proposal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Using these tools, FCPS will begin data collection to \u201cclassify aliases, usernames, emails [sic] websites, etc.\u201d and \u201cvisually identify relationships and connections between persons\u201d in order to \u201cdetect [and] help deter any negative actions or consequences coming from social media which may be directed to racial groups or any student or teacher within FCPS.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The surveillance system will also \u201csave search queries and set alerts for active listening\u201d and also sets \u201cno limits on searches, or the amount of data that can be saved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after the embattled FCPS has faced significant criticism online for several actions, including supplying phonographic and pedophilic materials for students to view and playing \u201cprivilege bingo\u201d in which they classified being a \u201cmilitary kid\u201d as possessing privilege.<\/p>\n<p>According to PDE, FCPS \u201ctracked comments criticizing the \u2018privilege\u2019 bingo card and posted comments about the criticism as a reply to tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FCPS parents say this amounts to a significant First Amendment violation, especially since \u201charassment, hate speech and bullying\u201d are not defined by the school district.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is looking to implement a surveillance and intelligence-gathering service to monitor student, parent, and teacher social media accounts for \u201chate speech\u201d and \u201csocial media threats.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}