OHPI in the press
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Islamophobia Watch mentions OHPI
June 25, 2014: Bob Pitt, The Bendigo Mosque: exporting hate to regional Victoria (republishes OHPI briefing), Islamophobia Watch (blog).
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Racial Violence allowed on Facebook
June 18, 2014: Expo Today (Swedish Media) mentioned OHPI in an article on how Facebook allows incitement to racial violence go unchecked on its platform. http://expo.se/2014/uppmaningar-till-rasistiskt-vald-tillats-av-facebook_6550.html Facebook group “We who do not want to party with immigrants” do not violate Facebook’s “community rules”. That answer got a user who responded to the group which calls for…
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The ups and downs of an anonymous, anti-fascist life
June 4, 2014, Andy Fleming, The ups and downs of an anonymous, anti-fascist life, Overland, https://overland.org.au/2014/06/the-ups-and-downs-of-an-anonymous-anti-fascist-life/ I soon learned that Dandakaranya, the forest I was about to enter, was full of people who had many names and fluid identities. It was like balm to me, that idea. How lovely not to be stuck with yourself, to…
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The Australia First Party. LOLWUT.
May 11, 2014: The Australia First Party. LOLWUT., Slackbastard, http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=36306 The Australia First Party (AF), a White nationalist/neo-fascist party, has been mentioneda few times in the media recently, chiefly on account of its organisation of a rally in Brisbane on May 2 in solidarity with the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn (GD). Since then, the Melbourne-based Online Hate Prevention Institute has…
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Do You Hate to be Online?
April 8, 2014: Do you Hate to be Online?, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, http://caama.com.au/2014/04/page/7 Online hate is all around us nowadays. Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube are filled with racial/ ethic hate. Our children are more at risk spending more and more time online and are more at risk to online hate more than ever…
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Social Media Users more open to racism with law changes
April 7, 2014: Warren Barnsley, Social Media Users more open to racism with law changes, National Indigenous Radio Service The Online Hate Prevention Institute is concerned proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act could open the floodgates for racial abuse on social media. The Federal Government wants to repeal an aspect of the Act that…
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Potential Fight Over Federal Racial Discrimination Act s 18C: Unbolting “Bolt”
February 25, 2014, www.timebase.com.au, http://www.timebase.com.au/news/2014/AT097-article.html Recent press has reported that Federal Attorney-General George Brandis (the Attorney) has said that the Federal criminal laws banning racial violence “have been too narrowly drawn” in that they should in fact also prohibit the “incitement to racial hatred”. This appears to be a deviation from the Attorney’s (and his government’s) previously…
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NIRS interviews OHPI
February 11, 2014: National Indigenous Radio Service discusses OHPI’s work A newsgrab of the interviews reports: The Online Hate Prevention Institute says governments must intervene in eliminating racist content being posted to social media sites. The comments, from Chief Executive Andre Oboler, come with the recent removal of an Aboriginal memes page from Facebook. That…
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The increase in Islamophobia on the Internet
January 10, 2014: Raport: „Wzrost islamofobii w Internecie”, Islamofobia pod lupa (The increase in Islamophobia on the Internet, Islamophpbia under scrutiny (translation from Polish)), http://islamofobia.info.pl/2014/01/10/raport-wzrost-islamofobii-w-internecie/#more-529 December 10, 2013, on the occasion of the International Day for Human Rights released a report Institute. Combating Hate on the Internet (ang. Online Hate Prevention Institute) in collaboration with the…