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How can we stem the tide of online harassment and abuse?

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Young adults aged 18 to 24 are more likely than older Australians to experience some forms of digital harassment and abuse, according to new research from RMIT and La Trobe universities.

The research surveyed 3000 Australian adults aged 18 to 54 about their...

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Tree spiking = Beheading ergo Environmentalism = Terrorism

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Moral equivalence is among the standard logical fallacies identified by philosophers. “It seeks to draw comparisons”, goes a definition, “between different, often unrelated things, to make a point that one is just as bad as the other”.

For lecturers in logic seeking a perfect case study, one has just been published...

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