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Women's Program: Women's SWAT Team
The Online Policy Group tracks incidents of online bias, defamation,
and discrimination against individuals and/or communities who are women, as well as partnering with other
organizations who track and respond to such incidents. Please
help by
reporting such incidents and
responding to them, as well as reviewing
media coverage and links to
related organizations and publications.
Report Online Incidents of Bias Against Women
Please report any incidents of bias,
discrimination, or defamation against women that you discover online on the OPG
incident report form.
Respond to Online Incidents of Bias Against Women
Please respond to the following action alerts regarding online
incidents of anti-women bias, defamation, and discrimination.
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Media Coverage
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The Ignoble Savage
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Talk Radio Network Inc. (TRN), an Oregon-based company that syndicates Savage's hate-filled right-wing talk show, "The Michael Savage Show," to 305 radio stations around the country, is suing Julie Sigwart, co-founder of the Web site TakeBacktheMedia.com (TBTM); Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt and Leavitt Enterprises, who produce www.savagestupidity.com; and unknown individual "John Doe," who produces www.michaelsavagesucks.com, Alternet.org (June 9, 2003)
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U.S. Wants Court Out of Abortion Case
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The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to reject a politically charged abortion case that seeks free-speech protection for protesters who used "wanted" posters to target doctors, Associated Press via Yahoo! News (June 2, 2003)
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An Orwellian Purge
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A May 31, 2002 internal memo from the Education Department, "Criterion and Process for Removing Old Content from www.ed.gov," the department's Web site, is strangely akin to what occurs in 1984, Baltimore Sun (April 28, 2003)
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South St. Paul Abortion Foe Ordered to Halt Using Trade Name
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A man who used well-known trademarked names such as Coke and Pepsi to promote views opposing abortion on the Internet was ordered Tuesday to stop, at least temporarily, by a federal judge in Minneapolis, Minneapolis Star Tribune (July 24, 2002)
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Big Names Allege Abortion Foe Exploits Their Tags
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Several of the nation's highest-profile corporations sued a South St. Paul man in federal court Thursday, alleging that he is a "cyber squatter" exploiting their famous or distinctive trademarks to promote his views against abortion, Minneapolis Star Tribune (July 19, 2002)
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Related Organizations and Publications
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Posting of Abortion Doctor Data on Sites Constitutes Threat
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The operators of a website containing personal information about doctors and others involved in providing abortion services can be held liable for damages under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and anti-racketeering statutes, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Adobe pdf file) (May 16, 2002)
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