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Everything in moderation
Today we received a fair about of media attention due to our work on racism and the far-right. It started with an article in today’s Age. Just after 8am we were interviewed on talk-back radio at 3AW Breakfast. In the afternoon it was 7:30 from the ABC recording an interview which aired later that evening.…
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OHPI featured in BBC News
Wendling, Mike “Neo-Nazi, radical feminist and violent jihadist – all at once“, September 21, 2015, BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-34292809 To some he was an Islamist extremist, to others a radical feminist, to others a neo-Nazi. These are all online identities that seem to have belonged to Joshua Goldberg – but in reality he was none of these…
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Article on OHPI’s assistance to Ben Garrison
David Blumenstein, “Who’s Ben Garrison“, June 2, 2015, The NIB, https://thenib.com/the-internet-s-most-trolled-cartoonist-91a92d9b7585 Australian cartoonist David Blumenstein published an excellent comic on the story of Ben Garrison Cartoons, Online Hate Prevention Institute‘s Cartoonist in Residence, and his six year struggle against online trolls. The story includes an expose about OHPI’s role (mostly) behind the scenes in supporting Ben. You can read the…
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OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate
The Big Smoke, 11 December 2014, by Richard Jackson OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate Richard Jackson attended the launch by The Online Hate Prevention Institution (OHPI) of a database it hopes will help combat online hate. On Tuesday night the B’nai B’rith Centre, a Jewish organisation based in Darlinghurst, celebrated the…
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Hitting back against hate
Mx Newspaper, 9 December 2014, Hitting back against hate Web users are being armed with a new weapon in the war against online hate. Melbourne-based charity The Online Hate Prevention Institute will launch a tool tonight at ohpi.org.au that can be used to report, log and track online hate. Fight Against Hate uses crowd-sourcing to…
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The Independence Day Raids: A tale of love, war and rape
July 6, 2014, The Independence Day Raids: A tale of love, war and rape (blog post on 4chan). A Day on Tumblr (blog). Hello everyone it’s good to be back. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, real life gets in the way of everyone at some point and I decided to leave my…
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The dark side of the net
June 8, 2014: Chris Johnston, The Dark Side of the Internet, www.theage.com.au (Fairfax Media), http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-dark-side-of-the-net-20140607-39qe8.html Earlier this year when Garry met Sally, Garry was asked a simple question – ”How are you coping with the trolling?” He says it was a cathartic moment because he thought his campaign was the only one under attack. Garry…
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More on freedom of speech: the case of Ben Garrison
April 30, 2014: Sarah AB, More on freedom of speech: the case of Ben Garrison, Harry’s place, http://hurryupharry.org/2014/04/30/more-on-freedom-of-speech-the-case-of-ben-garrison/ In this interesting post cartoonist Ben Garrison describes how his work was maliciously misappropriated by anti-Semites. He is associated with the Australian group OHPI (Online Hate Prevention Institute), and the piece appears on their site. I am well disposed towards…