The “Aboriginal Memes 2014” Facebook page was created on January 9th and was ‘unpublished’ on January 27th following numerous people reporting it to Facebook.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...
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Jan 2014The 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...
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Dec 2013December 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...
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Dec 2013We 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...
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Nov 2013November 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...
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