Freedom of Speech
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Network 10 News, X (Twitter) & eSafety
OHPI CEO Andre Oboler was interviewed by Network 10 News on the campaign by Elon Musk and X (Twitter) as they seek to defy Australian law and reject the authority of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner.
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By popular demand: Political Speech and Hate on Facebook
The Facebook boycott in the United States is deeply concerning. It is a symptom of popularism and the modern post-fact world – not a solution to those problems. The demands attached to it in fact endager democracy. Action by European regulators, and particular Germany, on hate speech led to significant improvements by Facebook over recent years. Action…
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Academic Freedom, Criticism of China and Racism
Dr Gerald Roche: Universities must protect academic freedom, but to do so, they also need to protect their people from attacks and abuse. Attacking ideas is fine, attacking people is not.
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Mein Kampf Discussion
This briefing is a follow up to our article about Dymocks selling 94 editions of Mein Kampf. The editions include the Nazi’s official translation and many of these editions lack any commentary and offer the text, which is genocidal propaganda, with no interpretation or historical context. We’ve had some lively discussion on our Facebook post…
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ABC interview and e-mails with the IPA
Earlier today I was interviewed on ABC Radio by Myf Warhurst. We discussed the problem of online hate and what the Online Hate Prevention Institute does about it. This was a head of talks scheduled for the evenings of Tuesday 16/4 in Sydney Wednesday 17/4 in Brisbane and Thursday 2/5 in Melbourne. The interview is…
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Marriage Equality Postal Survey and Online Hate
The #DebateWithoutHate campaign is a campaign to counter the bullying, harassment, vilification, bigotry and hate speech which is being expressed online as a result of the public debate around the same sex marriage postal survey. This is not a campaign for “yes” or “no” on the postal survey itself and we hope people on both…
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Initial responses to #DebateWithoutHate
Within a few hours of writing about the #DebateWithoutHate campaign our post introducing the campaign had received over 100 likes and 29 shares. More importantly though, it created a space for conversation. That conversation on our own page gives an initial insight into the public debate and where it can start going off the rails… here…
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Can reporting news be hate?
Earlier today OHPI received an e-mail with the message “Very Offensive Y tube video , pl stop this hateful obnoxious video”. It linked to a YouTube video titled “Indian Hindus Force Muslims To Eat Cow Poop & Urine in Ramadan”. The video was posted by a user called “A Muslim” and it’s description is: Hindus…
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Twitters resistance to Government
We often highlight how social media platforms are overly protective of those using their platform for abuse and don’t give enough protection to the people that abuse impacts. US history, culture and legal norms play a large role in the corporate culture of social media companies which leads them to these positions that are often…
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Proposed changed to S18C defeated
The Australian Senate last night rejected the government’s proposed changes to water down the Racial Discrimination Act. The defeat came as the Labor, the Greens, the Nick Xenophon team, Jacqui Lambie and others all voted in defense of the current legislation protecting Australians against racial discrimination. The move to seek such changes itself damaged Australia…