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© 2021 AFPFrench soccer legend Thierry Henry quits social media over 'toxic' racism, abuse
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Sandoval
One thing is missing in this article. He also mentioned that it is interesting how social networks are super fast to respond to copyright claims while it takes forever to respond to racism, hate speech etc. and he is 100% correct.
Alfie Noakes
The exact opposite of what is happening, as you well know.
If the owners of the platforms aren't serious about regulating themselves, what other choice does he have? Would you put up with it, all day every day?
sourpuss
Good. He should start a podcast. Much better format.
Sal Affist
"It is far too easy to create an account, use it to bully and harass without consequence and still remain anonymous,"
I agree with him. There are no consequences, or they are extremely minor (such as eventually getting frozen or locked out or banned from the platforms.) There are many cowardly people who would refrain from vile and discriminatory behavior if their true identities were required to be on the platform.
I appreciate Japan Today allowing many of us to use aliases, but most commenters here keep a general level of decorum. Let's keep it that way.
Strangerland
It's amazing how many far-righties post about Freedom of Speech, while not explaining how there is an infringement upon it when no one has been arrested or sued for their language.
Unfortunately, the majority of the right are not only too stupid to form their own opinions, they're too stupid to fact-check the rhetoric they go then go on to repeat (unchecked).
The overall intelligence level of the right is probably only about 2/3 of the left unfortunately.
Jimizo
While I regard racist abuse as sick garbage, is high-profile black stars like Henry quitting social media the best way to deal with it?
Wouldn’t this be a victory for the racists?