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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…
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How to report a Facebook comment
Whilst comments normally only display options to Like or Reply, hovering the mouse cursor over a comment will display a cross and tooltip which allows you to hide it and then report it. Comments must be hidden before they can be reported! Step 1 Hover the mouse cursor over the comment to show a cross…
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Gaza “War” Photo taken down
October 15, 2014: Christian Kerr, Gaza “War” Photo taken down, The Australian (Page 2: Print Edition) quotes Dr Andre Oboler. A FACEBOOK posting linking to an article that portrayed a disabled Palestinian child as a victim of the recent strife in Gaza has been removed. The posting, by lobby group Australians for Palestine, appeared with…
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Misogyny and the Internet
Published in the Council Bulletin (National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Ltd.), vol 91, September 2014/5775. Two incidents in the last month have sparked a debate on online misogyny and sexism: the hacking and publishing of the nude photos of women celebrities and the intense online harassment of the feminist video-blogger Anita Sarkeesian after…