Publications
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Holocaust Denial & Social Media
January 27 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the day on which Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated. On this day, we remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered under an official Nazi policy to exterminate them for simply being who they were:…
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Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders
The Report Some Extracts OHPI’s Recommendations Media Mentions The attacks in January 2015 in France on the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, a police officer, and a kosher supermarket, have sparked significant discussion. That discussion touches on issues of antisemitism, freedom of speech and expression, a free press, freedom from persecution, human dignity, bigotry, religion, blasphemy,…
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Reporting using the Fight Against Hate tool
‘Fight Against Hate’ Launch Event, Sydney 2014 On the 9th of December 2014, the evening before International Human Rights Day, the Online Hate Prevention Institute held a public event to globally launch “Fight against Hate” our online tool for reporting and monitoring online hate and bigotry. The Hon Paul Fletcher MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the…
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Bike rage and the aggressive cyclist lobby
Over the last few days the OHPI Facebook page has received a number of comments relating to what is called “bike rage”. These comments come from an organised group of people who are trying to raise issues related to the rights of cyclists to use the roads. There has been significant commentary in the past…
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Rebutting The Conversation on online harm
We don’t normally publish replies to articles in the press, but a recent article in The Conversation” is so out of date in both its facts and its thinking that we felt the record had to be set straight. Frankly we expect more from The Conversation. This reads like a sponsored advertorial about the trust…
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Freedom with Responsibility (ICFOSS, 2014)
The text of this talk will be added after the talk is delivered, in the mean time, here are the slides. Freedom With Responsibility – ICFOSS
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Facebook Experiments with Australia
On December 11th the Online Hate Prevention Institute claimed a major win, the closure of the Facebook hate page “Take Back Australia”. This briefing is not about the page, but about Facebook itself. It highlights how after banning the page, Facebook partially circumvented their own systems, putting public safety in Australia at risk, to impose…
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The Indian response to @shamiwitness and the abuse of social media
There is a buzz here in India at the news that an Indian man, Mehdi Masroor Biswas, was arrested in the early hours of Saturday morning for operating the popular pro-ISIS Twitter account @shamiwitness. The account shared links to beheading videos and interviewed foreign fighters before they left to join ISIS and after they arrived.…
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WIN: Hate page Take Back Australia CLOSED
Update December 2014 – WIN! OHPI has been campaigning for the hate page “Take Back Australia” to be closed since the 2nd of October 2014. We’re pleased to report that on December 11th 2014, the day after International Human Rights Day, Facebook finally closed this vile page. On October 10th, prior to coming down, the…
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How Facebook responded to anti-Muslim Hate
Last year on International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2013, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) released a major report into the growing problem of online hate targeting the Muslim community. The report, titled ‘Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims’, was made freely available via the OHPI website. In the…