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Andre Oboler, Recognising hate and the right to freedom from persecution, Harry’s Place
In a July article I argued Facebook was giving hatred a hand by explicitly allowing Holocaust denial on their site in spite a ban they place on “hateful” content. I suggested regulation was needed and if self regulation didn’t work, then government intervention is needed to prevent an internet-powered surge in racial hatred. Out in […]
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Andre Oboler on Brian Cuban’s Revolution Rant
Webcast live and first archived at: The Cuban Revolution, September 3, 2009
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The Jerusalem Post reports on Dr Oboler’s new report on Facebook and Holocaust denial
Elan Miller, ‘Facebook doesn’t bar hateful content against Jews’, Jerusalem Post, 27 August 2009 The Facebook social networking Web site is violating its own terms and conditions on incitement to hatred, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs charged in a report released on Thursday. “Facebook has through ignorance created an anti-Semitic policy platform where the […]
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Andre Oboler, The Rise and Fall of a Facebook Hate Group, Covenant: Global Jewish Magazine
This was published as an updated version of the popular First Monday article by the same name. Abstract: One Facebook group has repeatedly caught the media’s attention. The group was called “Israel” is not a country! … Delist it from Facebook as a country! Despite the opinions of experts who highlighted the racist nature of […]
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Andre Oboler’s article, “Facebook gives hatred a hand”, from The Guardian’s Comment Is Free
Andre Oboler, Facebook gives hatred a hand, The Guardian: Comment Is Free, 13 July 2009 By refusing to remove groups that deny the Holocaust, Facebook is aiding the spread of hate at a time of rising racism Facebook has decided not to remove groups that deny the Holocaust. This policy contradicts its own “statement of […]
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Online Hate and Holocaust Denial: From Facebook to YouTube, North Eastern Jewish Centre
This talk to the North Eastern Jewish Centre in Melbourne was my first presentation exclusively focused on Holocaust denial. Opening the eyes of the audience to what was occurring online left many people in shock, including Holocaust survivors. The material I had to sort through in preparing for this talk was incredibly unsettling. More unsettling […]
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Andre Oboler comments to the Australian Jewish News on Facebook and Holocaust denial
Chantal Abitbol, Facebook refuses to ban all Holocaust-denial groups, The Australian Jewish News, 15 May 2009, pg 8 Social Networking site Facebook is facing mounting criticism in Australia and overseas after refusing to ban Holocaust-denial groups from its site. Despite international pressure calling for the popular website to block Holocaust-denial groups, Facebook said it does […]
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Andre Oboler, The rise and fall of a Facebook hate group, First Monday 13(11 )
One Facebook group has repeatedly caught the media’s attention. The group was called ‘”Israel” is not a country! … Delist it from Facebook as a country!”‘ Despite the opinions of experts who highlighted the racist nature of the group, Facebook refused to take action. After unsuccessfully lobbying Facebook for intervention, an organization known as the […]
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Germany’s F.A.Z. focuses on Online Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial with expert commentary from Dr Andre Oboler
The original German Language version of this article was published as: Christoph Gunkel, Facebook and Google Earth: Anti-Semitism in Web 2.0, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 14 2008. This English version was translated by Ricarda Krenn. It was the massacre of seven youths and one adult that turned David into an internet warrior. In March a […]
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Andre Oboler’s article “Hatred and Antisemitism Online”, a Spanish translation was published by Agencia Judia Noticias in Argentina
Originally published in Spanish as: Andre Oboler, Odio y antisemitismo on line (Hatred and Antisemitism Online), Agencia Judia Noticias (Jewish News Agency – Argentina) and in English at Zionism On The Web. Good news in the fight against online hate In February the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism met in Jerusalem. Speaking at the conference […]