regulation
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Mayor Jack Dempsey on online hate
We welcome Mayor Dempsey’s call for Federal and State Governments to “catch up with the modern world and make laws that keep people safe online”.
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Facebook resorts to intimidation as publishing paradigms clash
Overnight Facebook ramped up its efforts to pressure the Australian Government into dropping a proposed law that would see online platforms pay media companies for the use of […]
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HATE AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM FROM AN ONLINE SUBCULTURE: The Yom Kippur Terrorist Attack in Halle, Germany
A new form of terrorism emerged in 2019. Incubated by a globalised, toxic, anonymous online culture, incitement to hate now all too frequently leads to violent extremism that manifests offline, […]
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Drastic Action on Online Hate
This article was originally published as: Andre Oboler, “Social media in Germany combating hateful speech“, J-Wire, 28 December 2015 At one time Germany was the origin of racist […]
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Regulation of Online Hate Speech goes National
Facebook, Twitter, and Google have reached agreement with the German Government over the appropriate response to tackle hate speech. The response is deletion, and the time frame is […]
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Rebutting The Conversation on online harm
We don’t normally publish replies to articles in the press, but a recent article in The Conversation” is so out of date in both its facts and its […]
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ABC gives green light to hate speech
A couple of weeks ago the Online Hate Prevention Institute called out the ABC for sparking Facebook hate and then assuming that having moderators automatically meant there was […]
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Regulating Large Social Media Sites
The Australian Government is currently consulting with the Online Hate Prevention Institute and other industry and child safety groups regarding new proposals to clean up social media. We’re […]