澳大利亚女性杰西卡·罗伯逊于7月14日在黄金海岸拍摄了一段视频，记录一名Provac Australia公司的驾驶员对打车司机做出种族歧视手势的行为1。罗伯逊随后将视频发布到社交媒体，获得数十万次浏览1。
面对视频的广泛传播，Provac Australia公司在3天后向罗伯逊发送了10页的律师函，要求其删除视频并声称其构成诽谤1。尽管面临法律威胁，罗伯逊表示将继续坚持公开谴责种族歧视行为的立场1，并设立了众筹以支付律师费1。
公司联合总经理瑞思·兰伯特在Facebook评论中表示，"该驾驶员所做的一切是错误的，我为此道歉"1。澳大利亚种族歧视专员吉里达兰·西瓦拉曼指出，这类言论"会感染民众，像疾病一样蔓延，导致街头出现更多公然的种族歧视"1。
Jessica Roberson recorded a video on July 14 on the Gold Coast capturing a driver employed by Provac Australia making racist gestures toward her ride-share driver 1. The footage gained hundreds of thousands of views after Roberson shared it on social media 1. Three days later, the company sent her a 10-page legal letter demanding she remove the video and alleging it constituted defamation 1.
Despite the legal threat, Roberson has vowed to maintain her position in publicly condemning racist behavior 1. Provac Australia's joint managing director Rhys Lambert responded to the incident in a Facebook comment, stating: "To the driver involved, what happened to you was wrong, and I'm sorry" 1. Roberson has since established a crowdfunding campaign to cover legal fees 1. Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman weighed in on the broader implications, noting that such rhetoric "infects the population and spreads like a disease and leads to more overt racism on our streets" 1.
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