serious trolling
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When does disagreement become hate?
At the Online Hate Prevention Institute we are regularly contacted by people who have been advocating for an uncommon position in various online spaces. Examples of this include climate change sceptics who engage in debate on environmental pages, parents against vaccination who engage in debate in threads on public health, anti-Islam campaigners who engage on…
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Crossing the line on political speech
Australia does not have a bill of rights, or a broad concept of “freedom of speech”. What we do have is a narrow concept of freedom of political communication. This is a right enforced by the High Court of Australia who ruled that it is implied by the wording of the Australian Constitution. Our implied…
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OHPI featured in BBC News
Wendling, Mike “Neo-Nazi, radical feminist and violent jihadist – all at once“, September 21, 2015, BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-34292809 To some he was an Islamist extremist, to others a radical feminist, to others a neo-Nazi. These are all online identities that seem to have belonged to Joshua Goldberg – but in reality he was none of these…