racism
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Facebook & Wix act on Aboriginal Memes
Over the last few days the Online Hate Prevention Institute has been in contact with Facebook and Wix (a company offering do it yourself websites) over another lot of racist content directed against Indigenous Australians. As before the new content focused on “Aboriginal Memes”. Following contact by OHPI, both Facebook and Wix promptly took action…
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OHPI on National Indigenous Radio Service
OHPI was recently interviewed by the National Indigenous Radio Service on the issue of Aboriginal Memes. Our CEO Andre Oboler explained that there are flaws in Facebook’s processes in removing racist content posted to the social media site. These comments come after a page was taken down vilifying Indigenous Australians, with references to poverty and…
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News.com.au on Aboriginal Memes 2014
Source: Rod Chester, Facebook shuts vile Aboriginal memes page, despite earlier claiming it didn’t constitute ‘hate speech’, News.com.au, January 27 2014 FACEBOOK has shut down a racist Facebook page which vilified Indigenous Australians with revolting jokes and illustrations, despite earlier telling a complainant the page was acceptable under its ‘community standards’ policy. The Aboriginal Memes 2014 page…
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OHPI statement: Aboriginal Memes 2014
The “Aboriginal Memes 2014” Facebook page was created on January 9th and was ‘unpublished’ on January 27th following numerous people reporting it to Facebook. The page had only a small number of supporters. The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has a record of the page and its content. While some of the content was new,…
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News.com.au on Aboriginal Memes 2014
News.com.au reports on Facebook shutting down a racist Facebook page which vilified Indigenous Australians with revolting jokes and illustrations, despite earlier telling a complainant the page was acceptable under its ‘community standards’ policy. They discuss how the Online Hate Prevention Institute has been leading the campaign against the online attacks on indigenous Australians, releasing a…
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Hate Speech from Canada
The Online Hate Prevention Institute is a registered charity in Australia with a focus on preventing and reducing online hate, such as online racism. In 2013 a ‘discussion’ erupted on our Facebook page between members of Canada’s First Nations and Michele Tittler and her ‘End Race Based Law’ Facebook page. In OHPI’s opinion Michele Tittler’s page…
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Facebook criticized for not stopping racism
December 10, 2013: Daniel Vergara, Facebook kritiseras för att inte stoppa rasism, Expo.se (Swedish media) (Translation: Facebook criticized for not stopping racism ), http://expo.se/2013/facebook-kritiseras-for-att-inte-stoppa-rasism_6298.html Racism directed against minority groups abound on Facebook. A report from the Online Hate Prevention Institute of Australia has mapped Islamophobia on Facebook. The report notes that the company is not acting against the…
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Statement from Victorian community organisations
We have read with growing concern that the Federal government has plans to remove or water down the protections against racial vilification which presently extend to Australians of all backgrounds under the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). This would be a step backwards for Australia. We oppose absolutely any such change. The proposal to change the…
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Racial abuse caught on smartphone, SBS News
November 21, 2013: Andy Park, Racial abuse caught on smartphone, SBS News, http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2012/11/21/racial-abuse-caught-smartphone 10.21AM UPDATE FROM VICTORIA POLICE: Victoria Police takes incidents of this nature seriously and detectives from Transit Crime Investigation Unit are now actively investigating the matter. Anyone with information or who recognises people in the You Tube video is urged to contact Crime Stoppers…
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Centrelink Memes and Anti-Aboriginal Racism
BACKGROUND: “Aboriginal Memes”, that is racist captioned images attacking Indigenous Australians, first gained media attention around October 2012. OHPI produced the first major report on the topic, “Aboriginal Memes and OnlineHate“, which is available as a free download. Aboriginal Memes are less widespread these days but the do keep reappearing. The latest collection we have…