Press Releases
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PRESS RELEASE: Antisemitic Jew Meme
The Online Hate Prevention Institute, an Australian charity combating online racism and other forms of online hate, has today released a significant new report into antisemitism. The report
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OHPI statement: Aboriginal Memes 2014
The “Aboriginal Memes 2014” Facebook page was created on January 9th and was ‘unpublished’ on January 27th following numerous people reporting it to Facebook. The page had only
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Regulating Large Social Media Sites
The Australian Government is currently consulting with the Online Hate Prevention Institute and other industry and child safety groups regarding new proposals to clean up social media. We’re
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Hate Speech from Canada
The Online Hate Prevention Institute is a registered charity in Australia with a focus on preventing and reducing online hate, such as online racism. In 2013 a ‘discussion’
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OHPI releases report on free speech in light of the Charlie Hebdo attacks
On January 20, 2015, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) released a new report “Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of Charlie Hebdo”. The report
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Freedom Commissioner’s Appointment
PRESS RELEASE Last night the Australian government appointed a new commissioner to the Australian Human Rights Commission. The new brief is for the protection of freedom of expression.
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Statement from Victorian community organisations
We have read with growing concern that the Federal government has plans to remove or water down the protections against racial vilification which presently extend to Australians of
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Proposed changes to Racial Discrimination Act’s S18C re “insult” & “offend”
As reported yesterday in the Australian, the first legislation to be introduced into the Parliament by Australia’s new Attorney-General George Brandis will focus on altering or repealing Section 18C
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Anti-Muslim Hate Report
The Online Hate Prevention Institute have completed work on a substantive report examining online hate against Muslims. The report documents 50 Facebook pages which contain examples of vilifying speech.
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OHPI’s Annual Report 2013
On Tuesday 15 October 2013 OHPI held it’s Annual General Meeting. The meeting approved the operating report (below) and the audited financials on OHPI’s first financial year. As