Press Releases
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Marriage Equality Postal Survey and Online Hate
The #DebateWithoutHate campaign is a campaign to counter the bullying, harassment, vilification, bigotry and hate speech which is being expressed online as a result of the public debate around the same sex marriage postal survey. This is not a campaign for “yes” or “no” on the postal survey itself and we hope people on both…
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Proposed changed to S18C defeated
The Australian Senate last night rejected the government’s proposed changes to water down the Racial Discrimination Act. The defeat came as the Labor, the Greens, the Nick Xenophon team, Jacqui Lambie and others all voted in defense of the current legislation protecting Australians against racial discrimination. The move to seek such changes itself damaged Australia…
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Press Release: A climate of terror and fear
Our condolences go to the victims of the terrorists attack in London. Our admiration goes to the British PM who in the face of a terrorists attack on Parliament still had the conviction to speak out not only against terrorism but also for the values democracy seeks to protect, including both human rights and free…
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The future of OHPI
News that the Online Hate Prevention Institute is vacating its office has rightly raised questions on our social media page. We’re moving out of our office as we can no longer afford the cost of maintaining it. We have been unable to pay staff since March and eliminating the office removes our next largest expense. OHPI…
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Online Hate and Violence
We are seeing an unprecedented rising not just in hate speech but in hate crimes. Yesterday British MP Jo Cox was murdered, shot and stabbed by an assailant shouting “Britain First” the name of the far-right anti-Muslim British group created as a social media movement. The attack on the pulse night club in Orlando last…
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European Union agreement with Social Media Platforms on tackling Hate Speech
The Online Hate Prevention Institute welcomes the news that the European Union has just reach agreement on a code of conduct to tackle hate speech with the largest social media platforms providers: Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter. Under the agreement the platforms will “quickly and efficiently” tackle illegal hate speech relating to race, color, religion,…
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OHPI in Bucharest for IHRA
This week OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, is in Bucharest as part of the Australian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). IHRA is a unique intergovernmental organization which places political and social leaders’ support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research both nationally and internationally. At present IHRA is made up…
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Chetna Mahadik takes on a new challenge
The Online Hate Prevention Institute is wishes Chetna Mahadik every success as she moves on from her work with us to take on new challenges the Marketing and Communications Coordinator at the Ardoch Youth Foundation. OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, commented that, “Chetna worked for OHPI for two years and in that time has been an…
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They Can’t launches petition for YouTube to remove videos promoting terrorism
Recently, OHPI teamed-up with an Israeli organisation They Can’t in a call to fight online antisemitism. They Can’t particularly focusses on YouTube videos that promote, incite and abet violence against Jews. It has succeeded in getting thousands of such videos removed from YouTube. Unfortunately, thousands still remain online. A recent research we conducted, tracking 2,000 items of…
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PRESS RELEASE: Twitter’s culture may be fatal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) is concerned that despite a significant improvement in public relations, there are fundamental underlying problems at Twitter when it comes to the challenge of dealing with hateful and dangerous content. OHPI will continue our open and frank discussions with Twitter on how this issue can be…