Aboriginal Memes
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Aboriginal Memes still doing the rounds on Facebook
Last month, OHPI registered a big win when after 5 months of campaigning Facebook finally closed an Aboriginal Memes page permanently. It took numerous reports by OHPI and its supporters, and an article in The Age to get the company to follow its own community standards. The page “Aboriginal Humour” (ID # 327442417394528) was created…
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Hate, Humour and Social Media
Humour can be a powerful tool. It can break down barriers and allow the inappropriate or impolite to be said. Through humour deep fear can be broached and established power structures challenged. Humour, however, can also be used to enforce existing power structures, to humiliate, and to exclude. In social media the power of humour…
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Facebook accused of allowing hate speech
The Age, July 10, 2014, reporter Mahesh Sharma. Title: Facebook accused of allowing hate speech http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/facebook-accused-of-allowing-hate-speech-20140710-zszzl.html Facebook rejected a request to take down a page that contained content ridiculing Aboriginal people. Photo: Supplied Facebook is facing fresh accusations that it allows hate speech to proliferate and refuses to enforce its own quality-control standards. Dr…
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OHPI Submission on Racial Discrimination and S 18C
Earlier today the Online Hate Prevention Institute sent in a submission (also visible below) to the consultation by Australia’s Attorney-General on his proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth). Our submission focused on the issue of cyber-racism and the role S 18C plays in tackling this problem. Executive Summary The Online Hate Prevention…
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Do You Hate to be Online?
April 8, 2014: Do you Hate to be Online?, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, http://caama.com.au/2014/04/page/7 Online hate is all around us nowadays. Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube are filled with racial/ ethic hate. Our children are more at risk spending more and more time online and are more at risk to online hate more than ever…
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Social Media Users more open to racism with law changes
April 7, 2014: Warren Barnsley, Social Media Users more open to racism with law changes, National Indigenous Radio Service The Online Hate Prevention Institute is concerned proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act could open the floodgates for racial abuse on social media. The Federal Government wants to repeal an aspect of the Act that…
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Normalising Holocaust Denial, Aboriginal Memes and more
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), the national harm prevention charity dedicated to online hate issues, today warned that proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act will have the effect of normalising Holocaust denial, racist Aboriginal memes and more in social media. The charity’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, today highlighted the important role of the…
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Racial discrimination: they just don’t get it
The underlying problem the Government is facing over changes to the Racial Discrimination Act is that it still doesn’t understand the point the Judge was making in the Bolt case. It still doesn’t understand what Bolt did wrong. They don’t understand the danger to the social cohesion of Australia that comes from actions like Bolt’s.…
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Facebook & Wix act on Aboriginal Memes
Over the last few days the Online Hate Prevention Institute has been in contact with Facebook and Wix (a company offering do it yourself websites) over another lot of racist content directed against Indigenous Australians. As before the new content focused on “Aboriginal Memes”. Following contact by OHPI, both Facebook and Wix promptly took action…
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NIRS interviews OHPI
February 11, 2014: National Indigenous Radio Service discusses OHPI’s work A newsgrab of the interviews reports: The Online Hate Prevention Institute says governments must intervene in eliminating racist content being posted to social media sites. The comments, from Chief Executive Andre Oboler, come with the recent removal of an Aboriginal memes page from Facebook. That…