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External resources on Serious Trolling
Trolling is defined as writing something with the intention of provoking an angry or emotional response out of your target — and, in the process, attracting attention and reframing a debate in a way that is more favourable to one’s own viewpoint. Within reason, trolling is not hate. Unfortunately, given the power that anonymity gives to trolls,…
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Report Facebook Page “Gays should be fit and muscular”
A short while ago, a supporter drew our attention to the Facebook page “Gays should be fit and Muscular #fpsbg” (ID 500634340092240) which has 321 supporters and had been online since June 6, 2015. As the name suggests, it is a body shaming site targeting overweight gay men. In particular, it targets the “Bear…
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Win: Removal of Yorkshire Anti Communists Facebook Page
A few days ago, an antisemitic Facebook community Yorkshire Anti Communists (ID 104387733236839) was reported to our online hate reporting tool, FightAgainstHate.com. It had been online since June 22, 2015 and had amassed 375 supporters in the short period. We documented the contents of the Page and reported it to Facebook. We are pleased to…
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Report homophobic Facebook page “Resistance Against Sodomite Fascisti”
One of the pages reported to FightAgainstHate.com is a homophobic community on Facebook called “Resistance Against Sodomite Fascisti”. In its About page, it explains its agenda: “We are the resistance against the evil sodomite agenda of perversion, immorality, and gay supremacy!” By equating homosexuality with perversion and immorality, it promotes hate, fear and persecution of…
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New Zealand criminalises cyberbullying
Last week, New Zealand enacted a controversial new law, The Harmful Digital Communications Act, which criminalises cyberbullying and cyber-harassment of individuals. The law applies to everyone and is not limited to children, as is the case in Canada and Australia. Australia and New Zealand often look to each when considering law reform, in light of…
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How to access your Facebook Support Dashboard
Step 1 Login to Facebook, then click on the arrow symbol at the top right of your Facebook home screen. Facebook now lets you click Support Dashboard directly, instead of needing to access it via Settings. If you are on the Settings page, click on Support Dashboard to view the history of items which you…
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Attacking the ANZACs in the lead up to Centenary
UPDATE: Success! Facebook removed this page on May 15, 2015. This briefing looks at the “Diggers are Dole Bludgers” page (ID 1008573589154801) on Facebook and provides some examples of posts and imagery present on this page. The page was created on April 17th and currently has 416 likes. The page has received National coverage by…
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OHPI attends RDA@40
OHPI attended the conference RDA@40 in Sydney on February 19 and 20, 2015 organised the Australian Human Rights Commission. The conference was held to mark the 40th anniversary of the passing of the Racial Discriminate Act (RDA), and was a part of year long celebrations being planned by the Commission. The conference looked at both…
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Modern antisemitism: The Holocaust and other genocides
On January 27, 2015, the Holocaust Memorial Day, OHPI published a briefing discussing how Holocaust denial is a well recognized form of antisemitism, and why social media companies’ poor response in dealing with it as part of their policies on hate speech must change. While we expected discussion in response to our new briefing, we…
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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…