Cyber-Bullying
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Report Spastic Ballet YouTube Video
In this briefing, we highlight the YouTube video “Spastic ballet” that has been online since August 20, 2009. It has been viewed more than 238,000 times and has […]
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Social Media Violence Against Women: Carla’s tale of a misogynistic bully
When people speak of bullying, all too often the conversation is limited to young people and schools. Yes, children and young adults do face bullying both in school […]
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Where do trolls come from and how do we stop their cyberbullying?
The Online Hate Prevention Institute has been fielding a number of media questions about online trolling and abuse in recent days. We’ve discussed the issue on radio this […]
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Bigots target OHPI
The page “Left Wing Bigots and Extremists exposed” (460474917459804) says its purpose is to “expose the violent left wing bigots and people that support them”. The page is used […]
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Steps taken by Twitter to combat abuse
Since early this year, Twitter has been on a mission to finally tackle the horrendous abuse and harassment that the platform has become infamous for. Ever since its […]
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Parents’ Congress to tackle the issue of cyberbullying
OHPI has taken a lead role in fighting cyberbullying, particularly among children. In 2012, we actively participated in the Coalition’s Review of Online Safety for Children. Some of […]
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Hate among friends
Most of the online hate OHPI reports on is public content. The reason for this is that public content is able to go viral and can usually do […]
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Cyberbullying
The Macquarie Dictionary (Sixth Edition, 2013) defines a cyberbully as: noun (plural cyberbullies)1. a person who bullies another using email, chat rooms, social network sites, etc. –verb (t) (cyberbullied, […]