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In Japan, online insults punishable by up to a year in prison

In Japan, online insults punishable by up to a year in prison

Japan has seen a sharp increase in incidents of online abuse and cyberbullying, with experts suggesting that people find it easier to criticise and insult behind the anonymity of social media posts.

  • by Julian Ryall

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Death of Netflix reality show participant inspires Japanese laws to jail online bullies

Death of Netflix reality show participant inspires Japanese laws to jail online bullies

Japan’s parliament approved tougher penalties for criminal defamation in a move prompted by a bullied wrestler’s suicide that is raising free speech concerns.

  • by Mari Yamaguchi
Let’s stop pretending the internet is a harmless virtual fairyland
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Let’s stop pretending the internet is a harmless virtual fairyland

It’s wrong to suggest we can be anonymous online because what we do on the internet can do real harm offline.

  • by Ginger Gorman
Sufferer – or snowflake? What’s up with all the bullying claims?
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Sufferer – or snowflake? What’s up with all the bullying claims?

Bullying is a loaded term that’s being levelled a lot these days. The righting of long-tolerated wrongs, or politically correct overreach?

  • by Tim Elliott
Anti-trolling bill to be prioritised as PM backs Deves

Anti-trolling bill to be prioritised as PM backs Deves

Scott Morrison has vowed to protect youth mental health with election promises to protect children online, while continuing to back controversial candidate Katherine Deves.

  • by Angus Thompson
‘The last place you expect it’: Tiny money transfers used to send family violence abuse

‘The last place you expect it’: Tiny money transfers used to send family violence abuse

National Australia Bank has moved to block words and phrases designed to scare or control victims after detecting 10,000 attempts to send abusive messages in March alone.

  • by Wendy Tuohy
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Isolated and powerless in the face of humourless parental trolls

Isolated and powerless in the face of humourless parental trolls

COVID-positive in isolation, the last thing a despairing parent needs is po-faced judgment from Twitter trolls.

  • by Kerri Sackville
Police charge two people for online threats against Labor senator

Police charge two people for online threats against Labor senator

Police have charged a man and a woman with separately sending threatening online messages to Labor frontbencher Kristina Keneally late last year.

  • by Katina Curtis
One-third of professional women abused online for sex, looks or motherhood

One-third of professional women abused online for sex, looks or motherhood

Women in everyday professional jobs which require an online presence are censoring themselves after being attacked for their sex, appearance and being working mothers.

  • by Wendy Tuohy
Defamation experts reject Morrison government’s ‘anti-troll’ proposal
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Defamation experts reject Morrison government’s ‘anti-troll’ proposal

Experts say the plan to amend the country’s defamation laws will increase legal costs, waste court time and make it harder to get some online comments removed.

  • by Michaela Whitbourn
‘Constantly on watch’: Inquiry hears about toll of online abuse

‘Constantly on watch’: Inquiry hears about toll of online abuse

Lawyer Nyadol Nyuon joined representatives from the Muslim, Jewish and disability communities in giving evidence to a federal parliamentary inquiry about the abuse they have endured online.

  • by Lisa Visentin