misogyny
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Promoting Dylann Roof’s Extremism on Facebook
Update (22 June 2015) After rejecting initial reports, then reviewing it and rejecting the reports again, a second review has seen Facebook finally take down the Dylann Roof hate page. Thank you to everyone who reported and who shared this briefing, together we made a difference. Statement from Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online…
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Facebook Fails to Protect Free Speech Against Hate
Social media companies claim the best response to hate speech is more speech. The use of counter speech is an important tool in combating all forms of online hate, but it comes with some unavoidable limitations. In addition to these limitations, we are now seeing a systemic failure at Facebook which is resulting in counter…
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WIN: Hate page Take Back Australia CLOSED
Update December 2014 – WIN! OHPI has been campaigning for the hate page “Take Back Australia” to be closed since the 2nd of October 2014. We’re pleased to report that on December 11th 2014, the day after International Human Rights Day, Facebook finally closed this vile page. On October 10th, prior to coming down, the…
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Misogyny
The Macquarie dictionary (Sixth Edition 2013) defines misogyny as: noun 1. hatred of women. 2. entrenched prejudice against women. OHPI stands against misogynistic speech made online particularly on social media. In particular, we campaign against rape jokes, threats and intimidation, slut-shaming, cyber-mobbing a woman to push her out of the discussion, and revenge porn. Support our…
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Misogyny and the Internet
Published in the Council Bulletin (National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Ltd.), vol 91, September 2014/5775. Two incidents in the last month have sparked a debate on online misogyny and sexism: the hacking and publishing of the nude photos of women celebrities and the intense online harassment of the feminist video-blogger Anita Sarkeesian after…
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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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Landover Baptist Church and the limits of satire
This week, the Facebook Page of the Landover Baptist Church sparked a discussion in the OHPI office on the limits of satire. Are there any limits, or is all fair in love, war and lampooning? First, a brief background. The Landover Baptist Church is a fictional Baptist church is the US that satirises fundamentalist Christianity and the…
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Video Briefing: Misogyny – Hate Against Women
This is the second part of a series of briefings related to OHPI’s campaign video “Stop Racism and Online Hate with OHPI”. This briefing focuses on the three images in the video which relate to women. The full video can be seen below, and the images have each been recaptured from the video to show…