Internet troll
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How to identify a Facebook troll
A consequenceย of fighting online hate is that our Facebook page is often attacked by trolls. Some are looking to waste our time by flooding our page with irrelevant content. Others post unnecessarily incendiary content on our Facebook page with the aim of derailing a fruitful conversation.ย More often than not, the accounts are fake.ย We usually…
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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 Bโnai Bโrith 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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Serious Trolling
With respect to the Internet, The Macquarie Dictionary (Sixth Edition, 2013) defines a troll as: troll1 /troสl/ (say trohl) verb (t) 8. Internet to behave in the manner of a troll. noun 13.ย the act of trolling. 4. Internet a.ย someone who, protected by online anonymity, posts messages in a discussion forum, chat room, etc.,…
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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 itโs good to be back. Itโs been a while since Iโve posted anything, real life gets in the way of everyone at some point and I decided to leave my…
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Meet Lady Diamond
Welcome to the Adventures of Lady Diamond, Anti-Hate Campaigner at the Online Hate Prevention Institute. This is the first in a new series of videos produced by OHPI to explore issues of online hate. Two further video will be released by the end of July. Your thoughts and feedback on this video can be shared…
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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,ย http://hurryupharry.org/2014/04/30/more-on-freedom-of-speech-the-case-of-ben-garrison/ In thisย interesting postย 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…
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The problem of cyberbullying trolls
We recently received a question asking for OHPI’s comment on the prevalence of bullying, hate, abuse and other conduct which seems to be given a pass online but which would meet strong condemnation in any off line context. Our first comment is to note that there is less acceptance of this online conduct now than…