racism
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Netizen Report: As water levels rise, Iran’s ban on messaging apps is slowing emergency relief for flood victims
Global Voice cites our CEO Andre Oboler when discussing Australia’s new law requiring social media companies to remove and report abhorrent content.
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Laws targeting terror videos on Facebook and YouTube ‘rushed’ and ‘knee-jerk’, lawyers and tech industry say
ABC News talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the new laws requiring social media companies to remove and report abhorrent material on their platform.
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Anning in firing line from new FB ban
SBS News talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook’s new policies on racist content, and about the importance of local knowledge when regulating social media platforms.
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Christchurch shootings fuel politics of race in NZ, Australia
Our CEO Andre Oboler talks to China Daily Global about white supremacy in the wake of the Christchurch attack in New Zealand.
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Social media giants face regulation as publishers, not just postmen
Our CEO Andre Oboler talks to Financial Review about new regulations for social media companies in the wake of the Christchurch attack.
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Being Australian
Some Australian have ancestors who came here over 50,000 years ago and were, according to research published in Nature, the worlds earliest explorers. The cultures of our Indigenous people’s are rich and diverse and represent some of the oldest living cultures on earth. There are, for example, almost 150 Indigenous languages in daily use in…
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Normalising Far Right Views
As part of our campaign on monitoring far-right groups in the lead up to Australia day we highlight one of the tactics of the far right is to claim that they are not actually far right and that their views are typical of normal every day Australians. In this way they hope to appeal to…
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She’ll be right mate
While moderating our page we came across a post from someone whose parents who immigrated to Australia from Europe. In this post they suggest racism was much worse in the 1950s to 1980s. That is true for European immigrants, and likely for society as a whole, but doesn’t do much for Sudanese-Australians, Muslim-Australians or indeed…
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Racists at St. Kilda Beach & Online
Large numbers of police, including the riot squad and mounted police, have formed a barrier better far-right nationalist and anti-racism protesters at St. Kilda beach today. The far-right nationalists The far-right nationalists include the usual self appointed leaders, some of whom already have criminal convictions for serious racial vilification. In the past their focus has…
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When Patriotism becomes Nationalism
Patriotism and Nationalism can sometimes mean the same thing, however, there is one additional element to nationalism that sets it apart from real patriotism. As an article on the website of the Merriam-Webster dictionary explains: “the definition of nationalism also includes ‘exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its…