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> Why did this university have a list of "activist" students curated anyways? The article doesn't make it clear whether the police asked the uni for a list of s
by yrro 7y ago
> Why did this university have a list of "activist" students curated anyways? The article doesn't make it clear whether the police asked the uni for a list of students involved in x and y organizations or whether the uni just handed over a list of people on a watchlist. Either is disturbing.
Various front line staff in the UK (e.g.,) teachers have to shop anyone they suspect of havi g extremist views into the police. This is the Prevent programme which I think was brought in after the July 7 terror attacks.
- DanBC 7y agoIn theory the PREVENT agenda is only concerned with groups that support terrorism or similarly extremist views. In practice a lot of people who are not violent hold extremist views, which is why there have been so many prevent agenda referrals. Here's a reasonable article about PREVENT: https://www.anncrafttrust.org/what-is-the-prevent-agenda/ https://www.anncrafttrust.org/what-is-the-prevent-agenda/