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New report warns authorities not equipped to deal with coordinated online hate
The Institute of Community Directors Australia covers the launch of a report on the hate campaign against Collective Shout, after they had games featuring violence against women removed from online gaming platforms. “The report, from the Online Hate Prevention Institute, details a year-long campaign of hate against Collective Shout, an all-female organisation that challenges the…
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Technology Facilitated Violence Against Women
Documentation and analysis of online abuse targeting Collective Shout This report examines the sustained campaign of hostility, harassment and harm directed at Collective Shout during 2025-26 following its advocacy to remove video games depicting rape, incest, sexual torture and child sexual abuse material from the digital distribution platforms Steam and Itch.io. The investigation finds that…
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Gamer Gate Returns: Collective Shout edition
Collective Shout is an registered Australian charity that campaigns against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls. In July they launched an email campaign to the payment processors Mastercard and Visa to force game store Steam to remove games featuring rape or incest which are in breach of Australian classification laws. Steam removed…
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Twitter is a muppet
In British slang, calling someone a muppet is a way of saying they are foolish and have about as much intelligence as a cloth puppet. When it comes to twitter’s artificial intelligence for detecting “potentially sensitive content” the label seems to fit. Here is an example of something Twitter felt needed to be hidden as…
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Tackling COVID Misinformation
Misinformation continues to circulate about both the Covid virus and Covid vaccines. Today we discuss a particularly dangerous example.