Sydney, Sep 16 (ANI): Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner has called for an urgent national summit to address the harm being caused by hateful and racist comments on internet blogs and social media sites.
"I'm quite upset by what has been happening in the past three weeks," Courier Mail quoted Commissioner Dr Helen Szoke, as saying, after complaints prompted Facebook on Friday to restrict Australian access to a new page called 'Are Abos Scum?'
A Facebook spokeswoman said while it did not share the distasteful views, and the page did not violate the company's terms, local access had been restricted "out of respect for local laws", the report said.
Szoke said she also was disturbed by "really horrific" online anti-Jewish pages.
She said the problem of hateful online meme pages seemed to be getting out of hand and she would take "a more direct approach" to the problem next week, the report added. (ANI)
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