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PRESS RELEASE: OHPI’s S 18C Submission
In a submission to the Australian Government’s consultation on proposed changes to Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has warned of serious and unforseen consequences if the proposed changes go ahead.Public sentiment is also against any changes to the Act with community groups of all types united against the proposed changes…
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Submission to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on the Proposed Amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)
This report discusses OHPI’s views on the proposed amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. We argue that the revisions would lead to a loss of sovereignty, in which case the Australian public may be exposed to hateful content that would have otherwise been illegal. We also raise concerns about the elevation of some forms…
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Who Is Behind ADL’s Racist Violence
April 23, 2014, Andy Fleming, New Matilda, Who Is Behind ADL’s Racist Violence, https://www.newmatilda.com/2014/04/23/whos-behind-adls-racist-violence Two shootings on opposite sides of the world show that far right groups pose a constant threat of violence. In Australia, the Muslim community are likely to be the targets, writes Andy Fleming A shooting at the home of Nathan Abela, the…
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Do You Hate to be Online?
April 8, 2014: Do you Hate to be Online?, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, http://caama.com.au/2014/04/page/7 Online hate is all around us nowadays. Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube are filled with racial/ ethic hate. Our children are more at risk spending more and more time online and are more at risk to online hate more than ever…
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Social Media Users more open to racism with law changes
April 7, 2014: Warren Barnsley, Social Media Users more open to racism with law changes, National Indigenous Radio Service The Online Hate Prevention Institute is concerned proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act could open the floodgates for racial abuse on social media. The Federal Government wants to repeal an aspect of the Act that…
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Normalising Holocaust Denial, Aboriginal Memes and more
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), the national harm prevention charity dedicated to online hate issues, today warned that proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act will have the effect of normalising Holocaust denial, racist Aboriginal memes and more in social media. The charity’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, today highlighted the important role of the…
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ABC gives green light to hate speech
A couple of weeks ago the Online Hate Prevention Institute called out the ABC for sparking Facebook hate and then assuming that having moderators automatically meant there was no hate speech on the ABC Facebook page. The posts by the ABC and comments in response from users related to a highly controversial ABC Four Corners program…
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Potential Fight Over Federal Racial Discrimination Act s 18C: Unbolting “Bolt”
February 25, 2014, www.timebase.com.au, http://www.timebase.com.au/news/2014/AT097-article.html Recent press has reported that Federal Attorney-General George Brandis (the Attorney) has said that the Federal criminal laws banning racial violence “have been too narrowly drawn” in that they should in fact also prohibit the “incitement to racial hatred”. This appears to be a deviation from the Attorney’s (and his government’s) previously…
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Facebook & Wix act on Aboriginal Memes
Over the last few days the Online Hate Prevention Institute has been in contact with Facebook and Wix (a company offering do it yourself websites) over another lot of racist content directed against Indigenous Australians. As before the new content focused on “Aboriginal Memes”. Following contact by OHPI, both Facebook and Wix promptly took action…
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NIRS interviews OHPI
February 11, 2014: National Indigenous Radio Service discusses OHPI’s work A newsgrab of the interviews reports: The Online Hate Prevention Institute says governments must intervene in eliminating racist content being posted to social media sites. The comments, from Chief Executive Andre Oboler, come with the recent removal of an Aboriginal memes page from Facebook. That…