Publications
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Postal Survey and Misinformation
In a comment on our Facebook page headed “10 FACTS ABOUT SAME SEX MARRIAGE” argues against a “yes” vote in the Postal Survey on Same-Sex Marriage. The post is long, detailed, and with quite a few links to external sources. This briefing looks first at where the content came from, then it addresses the arguments…
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Debate Without Hate
Have you seen bullying of individuals or harassment of groups in society during online discussions about the same sex marriage postal survey? As part of the #DebateWithoutHate campaign, you can now report that content using the tool below Other online hate which is entirely unrelated to Australia’s same sex marriage postal survey can still be reported…
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The far-right trolls
We’ve just banned the second person from the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s Facebook page since the #DebateWithoutHate campaign started 5 days ago. In that time the main article has been liked / shared over 1,300 times on Facebook. As we explained in our article about the first ban, under our “no platform policy” we ban…
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Ultra Conservative Homophobia
After launching our #DebateWithoutHate campaign a Facebook post about the campaign received a number of problematic comments. We documented some of these comments and explained why they were problematic in our first article of hate examples from this debate. This second article looks at comments from one person which have gone so far cross the…
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Initial responses to #DebateWithoutHate
Within a few hours of writing about the #DebateWithoutHate campaign our post introducing the campaign had received over 100 likes and 29 shares. More importantly though, it created a space for conversation. That conversation on our own page gives an initial insight into the public debate and where it can start going off the rails… here…
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Can reporting news be hate?
Earlier today OHPI received an e-mail with the message “Very Offensive Y tube video , pl stop this hateful obnoxious video”. It linked to a YouTube video titled “Indian Hindus Force Muslims To Eat Cow Poop & Urine in Ramadan”. The video was posted by a user called “A Muslim” and it’s description is: Hindus…
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Nathan Sykes an Australian Troll
Luke McMahon has written an excellent article for the Sydney Morning Herald revealing the real identity, online personas, harassment and intimidation campaigns of far-right extremist Nathan Sykes. The Online Hate Prevention Institute and our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, have been one of the targets of Sykes who is a former professional journalist and more recently a regular contributor…
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Twitters resistance to Government
We often highlight how social media platforms are overly protective of those using their platform for abuse and don’t give enough protection to the people that abuse impacts. US history, culture and legal norms play a large role in the corporate culture of social media companies which leads them to these positions that are often…
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Emboldening those promoting bigotry
Yesterday we warned that a bill introduced to the Senate on Wednesday by the Government was seeking to water down Australia’s laws against racial discrimination to promote the interests of those who want bigotry to be more lawful in Australia so they can abuse vulnerable minorities without consequence. Our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, previously told the Parliamentary…
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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…