Number of discriminatory posts makes for depressing reading. Can anything be done by football authorities, police and internet companies?
• Research shows 134,000 abusive message posts to players and clubs
Kick It Out has called for the football authorities, internet companies and the police to collectively consider the action they may take about the huge tide of racist and other discriminatory abuse spewing on social media but an initial reaction is surely basic despair.
Given what some black players and the former player turned broadcaster Stan Collymore have publicised of the vile racism they have been sent, we should probably not be shocked. However, to see the figure of 134,400 racist, homophobic, sexist and other discriminatory posts, possibly amounting to hate crime, sent by people from August to March this season, relating to the great clubs and players of the beautiful game, is profoundly depressing. What can be done about it is a difficult question that should be considered only after registering sadness and outrage that hate of such enormity is being generated in 2015.
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source Sport | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1OlEex4
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