RCMP calling on parents to combat rising “online violent extremism”
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The RCMP’s Federal Policing Northwest Region are asking parents to be more vigilant with their children’s online behaviour, following a rise in violent online groups across the country.
The Northwest Region’s (NWR) Superintendent, Officer Matt Johnson, says “gone are the days when risk existed only in one physical location or solely in the ‘real world.’ Today, the threat extends just as dangerously into cyberspace, where online activity can rapidly spill into real-world harm.”
Mounties say, besides recent events in Tumbler Ridge and Sexsmith, they are seeing an increase in behaviour related to “ideologically motivated violent extremism,” in one case arresting a youth for developing a Roblox game where you roleplay as a school shooter.
RCMP note that “using Discord, the youth received guidance from an online user to create these game modes,” and they were in possession of “materials promoting hateful rhetoric and documentation detailing a desire to carry out a mass casualty event.”
