Newsletter
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Contribution to โThe Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaustโ
On 15 March, Dr Oboler attended the launch of โThe Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaustโ, edited by Avril Alba and Jan Lรกnรญฤek. The volume includes a chapter by Dr Oboler and Dr William Allington titled โHistorical and Contemporary Expressions of Holocaust Disinformation in Australia.โ Written prior to 7 October, the chapter examines key…
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Spread the word, a new solution is in the pipeline!
Take Action Spread the word, a new solution is in the pipeline! Last week an Israeli student, Ido Daniel, held Facebook to account by challenging a Facebook representative at a conference over Facebook’s rejection of his complaint of outrageous antisemitic content. ย We can’t all have our rejected reports held up in front of Facebook and…
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Message to Supporters 14 September 2012
Dear all, Thank you for your support of the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s (OHPI’s) petition urging Facebook to immediately review its complaint procedures and address the fact that Facebook’s review staff are routinely rejecting clear cases of hate speech that users have take the time to report to the social media company. (The petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/facebook-must-stop-allowing-hate-speech.)…
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OHPI Start Petition to Facebook
This is the text of OHPI’s petition to Facebook demanding that they stop rejecting complaints of Online Hate. This follows our report on this issue. Stop allowing Hate Speech on Facebook; stop ignoring the terms of service! Facebook is failing to live up to its obligations under its terms of service. It is failing to…
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Introducing OHPI
The Online Hate Prevention Institute was established in 2012 as a dedicated organisation to act in the public interest for the prevention and control of online behaviour that is harmful or abusive to human beings. We focus specifically on online racism and other forms of hate speech which can lead to physical abuse, emotional abuse…