App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music

Daniel_Stuckey writes "German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that the country's interior ministers will meet this week to discuss use of an app developed by local police in Saxony that has attracted the unofficial name of 'Nazi Shazam.' Just like Shazam works out what song you're hearing from just a few bars, the system picks up audio fingerprints of neo-Nazi rock so police can intervene when it's being played. The whole situation sounds pretty insane to an outsider, but apparently far-right music is a big problem in Germany, where it's considered a 'gateway drug' into the neo-Nazi scene. The Guardian reported that in 2004, far-right groups even tried to recruit young members by handing out CD compilations in schools. That sort of action is illegal in Germany, where neo-Nazi groups are outlawed and the Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors is tasked with examining and indexing media — including films, games, music, and websites — that may be harmful to young people."

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[LWATCDR]

The internment camps where not death camps. The US did not intern all Japanese and did intern many Germans and Italians.
What will prevent it happening again is for History teachers to start teaching history instead of political doctrine.
I had a friend who went to Dartmouth. Her history professor brought in a woman that survived Hiroshima as a child. It was to teach that the US where monsters and dropped the bomb because the US was racist.
The same teacher never mentioned the rape of Nanking, the Bataan death match, or Japans use of biological and chemical weapons in China. When teaching about the internment camps they never talk about the Niihau incident, the bombing of Washington state, or the shelling of Long Beach by Japan.
When will we prevent something like that again? When we understand that the people of that time where not monsters and that if we where put in the same position and had the same knowledge that they had we would probably do the same thing. AKA we need to stop thinking we are better than they where and be grateful that we can learn from their mistakes.