hate speech
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Responding to Christchurch: Tackling Online Hate and Extremism
Following the terrorist attack in Christchurch New Zealand, live streamed on Facebook, which left 50 people dead hate speech and extremism online as in the spotlight. As Australia’s only Harm Prevention Charity dedicated to to tackling online hate and extremism we at the Online Hate Prevention Institute have suddenly found ourselves and our work in…
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BBC reflects with OHPI on rising online hate in 2015
Mike Wendling from the BBC has written an excellent reflection on the rising levels of online hate in 2015. The Online Hate prevention Institute is pleased our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, was extensively interviewed for this piece. Dr Oboler spoke to the BBC about the rise during the year in anti-Muslim hate, antisemitism and misogyny and…
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La Trobe University & OHPI
La Trobe University has generously given OHPI’s CEO and Communications Manager certificates of appreciation for the mentoring they have provided to students of communication from the University. OHPI has been working with the communications students of the La Trobe University for the past few years. Our collaborations have included making presentations before their undergraduate and graduate…
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Presentation in the UN (New York)
Presentation by Dr Andre Oboler at the UN in New York for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) conference “Tracking Hatred: An International Dialogue on Hate Speech in the Media”. The presentation was part of a panel on Monitoring, Regulating and Limiting Hate Speech. Panel description: “The anonymity, immediacy and global nature of the…
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“Virality on the Internet” and OHPI
In a recent article, Reddit moderators talk about the challenges of moderating the online discussion platform. A few things the article highlights are: The company is bound by US laws, which are clearly on the side of unfettered free speech regardless of context. Other countries take on a more nuanced view of things. We have…
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Freedom with Responsibility (ICFOSS, 2014)
The text of this talk will be added after the talk is delivered, in the mean time, here are the slides. Freedom With Responsibility – ICFOSS
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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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Ben Garrison on Trolls
“This page wasn’t removed. We reviewed the page you reported for harassment. Since it did not violate our community standards, we did not remove it. Thanks for your report.” This is the message I received after reporting a hate page on Facebook. Near the top of the hate page was a statement that encouraged the…
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OHPI at the World Jewish Congress
At the invitation of the World Jewish Congress, OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, delivered a special presentation on Online Hate Speech for a forum on Hatred and Antisemitism in Cyberspace at the meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Hungary. The presentation was part of a two part panel with colleague Dr Rafal Pankowski, Deputy…
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Message to Supporters 14 September 2012
Dear all, Thank you for your support of the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s (OHPI’s) petition urging Facebook to immediately review its complaint procedures and address the fact that Facebook’s review staff are routinely rejecting clear cases of hate speech that users have take the time to report to the social media company. (The petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/facebook-must-stop-allowing-hate-speech.)…