据称挫败的一起校园枪击案细节以及涉及婴儿的虐待行为，是澳大利亚联邦警察（AFP）向一个权力巨大的议会委员会披露的“令人毛骨悚然的证据”之一，当时安全机构正就“青少年在网上被激进化和操纵”敲响警钟。澳联邦警察助理专员桑德拉·布斯周三出席联邦议会情报与安全联合委员会听证会时警告议员和参议员，他们“将听到一些非常令人震惊的内容”，但表示这很有必要，“因为我们正面临历史上最严峻的挑战之一”。
Details of an alleged foiled school shooting and sadistic acts involving an infant are among “chilling evidence” the Australian Federal Police has shared with a powerful parliamentary committee as security agencies sound the alarm over ”youth radicalisation and manipulation” online. AFP Assistant Commissioner Sandra Booth warned MPs and senators they “will hear some very confronting content” as she fronted the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security on Wednesday but said it was necessary “because we are facing one of our greatest challenges in history”.
她说，澳联邦警察专员克里西·巴雷特指示她提供案例，“让每个人了解威胁的程度和严重性”。
She said AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett directed her to give examples to “make everyone understand the extent and the severity of the threat”.
布斯首先介绍了一起反恐调查，对象是一名“涉嫌持有暴力极端材料的13岁男孩”。“他在社交媒体平台Discord上活动，在对其住所执行搜查令期间，我们据称发现了一本笔记本，里面包含实施校园枪击的计划，”她说。“这不是在美国——这是在澳大利亚。”
Ms Booth began with a counter-terrorism investigation into a “13-year-old boy for allegedly possessing violent extremist material”. “He was using the social media platform Discord, and during a warrant executed at his home, we allegedly found a notebook that contained plans for a school shooting,” she said. “This was not in the US – this was in Australia.”
在另一个案例中，她概述了一名青少年被控利用通讯服务传播儿童虐待材料的案件。“据称，该青少年与一个虐待狂在线网络建立联系，寻求让其网名写在婴儿脸上，并强迫该婴儿吸电子烟，”她说。
In another example, she outlined the case of a teen charged with using a carriage service for child abuse material. “It is alleged the teen connected with a sadistic online network to seek his online handle be written across an infant’s face and that infant forced to vape,” she said.
布斯进而更广泛地谈到了宣扬虐待式剥削和虚无主义暴力的在线网络，点名了“The Com”和“764”。这些网络存在于各大社交媒体平台上，没有单一、连贯的意识形态。它们则是各种极端意识形态的温床，如新纳粹主义和撒旦教。包括加拿大和新西兰在内的多个国家已将“764”指定为恐怖组织，而国际执法机构正积极试图破坏更广泛的“Com”网络。“通常，他们将绝望的受害者变成施暴者，”布斯说。
Ms Booth went on to speak more broadly about online networks that promote sadistic exploitation and nihilistic violence, naming The Com and 764. These networks exist across social media platforms and do not have a single, coherent ideology. They are instead hotbeds of various extreme ideologies, such as Neo-Nazism and Satanism. Several countries, including Canada and New Zealand, have designated 764 a terrorist group, while international law enforcement actively try to disrupt the broader Com network. “Often, they turn desperate victims into perpetrators,” Ms Booth said.
“例如，青少年正在录制或直播虐杀动物、对兄弟姐妹实施身体或性侵犯，以摆脱勒索者对他们的控制。‘他们认为只要照对方要求做，就不会再成为目标。’她说，这些团伙在社交媒体和在线游戏中物色受害者，‘许多受害者是年轻女孩’。‘她们被让人感觉像交到了朋友，但现实是，她们正被诱骗，继而陷入为这些网络团伙的快感而伤害自己的循环中，’她说。后续报道敬请关注”
“For example, youth are recording or livestreaming animal crushing, physically or sexually assaulting their siblings to escape the hold their blackmailers have over them. “They think if they do what they are being asked they will no longer be targeted.” She said the groups hunt for victims on social media and online games and “many victims are young girls”. “They are made to feel like they have made a friend, but realistically, they are being groomed and then trapped in a cycle of hurting themselves for the gratification of these online groups,” she said. More to come