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But social media isn't the problem it's the people using social media to abuse people.
That's starting to sound like guns don't kill people, people kill people.
It all needs confronting and addressing. People should be able to do the things they want to do in life without having to suffer vile abuse. Essentially it's bullying, and bullying should never be acceptable.
They can cry on the salesman shoulder when their picking up their new Ferrari or will it be a new Aston Martin....décisions decisions. Poor them.
You seem to have bought into the fallacy that wealth protects you from mental illness or emotional struggles. I'd have thought that Paul Gascoigne, Tony Adams or Gary Speed might have taught you that it doesn't.
I know it's nothing much in the grand scale of things - and I'm not sure I like that its timing is a handy distraction from the ESL aftermath - but there's nothing like a boycott to make companies feel remorse in the very bottom of their wallets.
It's worth a go anyway.
I agree, something must be done to make social media to moderate their platforms. I just think more drastic action is needed to force them to be accountable. A mass boycott for a month or even until they make proper changes may do it if every club also asked their sponsors etc to halt advertising. A weekend boycott won't even cause a blip for them.
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Enough Is Enough on 15:24 - Apr 25 with 1459 views
You seem to have bought into the fallacy that wealth protects you from mental illness or emotional struggles. I'd have thought that Paul Gascoigne, Tony Adams or Gary Speed might have taught you that it doesn't.
It would take a British army private soldier 2 and a half years to earn what Pogba earns in a day, try mental illness when you’ve had your leg blown off on 17 grand a year.
No, I do not have any sympathy for professional footballers who drink them self stupid or are offended by twitter.
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Enough Is Enough on 16:15 - Apr 25 with 1407 views
It would take a British army private soldier 2 and a half years to earn what Pogba earns in a day, try mental illness when you’ve had your leg blown off on 17 grand a year.
No, I do not have any sympathy for professional footballers who drink them self stupid or are offended by twitter.
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yep, definitely something.
Never knowingly understood
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Enough Is Enough on 16:21 - Apr 25 with 1390 views
It would take a British army private soldier 2 and a half years to earn what Pogba earns in a day, try mental illness when you’ve had your leg blown off on 17 grand a year.
No, I do not have any sympathy for professional footballers who drink them self stupid or are offended by twitter.
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Leaving aside the question of whether it's ok for Twitter and Facebook to ignore abuse and death threats of highly paid footballers, this is not just about footballers, it's also about journalists and coaches and supporters. Even if it was just about footballers, most footballers are on low wages.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Leaving aside the question of whether it's ok for Twitter and Facebook to ignore abuse and death threats of highly paid footballers, this is not just about footballers, it's also about journalists and coaches and supporters. Even if it was just about footballers, most footballers are on low wages.
Anybody playing professional footballer in England,is earning far more than the average persons £27,000 a year, probably 3 times that in league 2, and at least 10 time that in the championship, never mind the scumship (premiership).
Death threats on Twitter, if you take them seriously you’d better hide under the sofa.
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Enough Is Enough on 16:54 - Apr 25 with 1312 views
Anybody playing professional footballer in England,is earning far more than the average persons £27,000 a year, probably 3 times that in league 2, and at least 10 time that in the championship, never mind the scumship (premiership).
Death threats on Twitter, if you take them seriously you’d better hide under the sofa.
Ok, what about a fellow supporter on £22,500?
Are you ok with threats or abuse of anyone, regardless of income and profession?
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
There are large amounts of T&Cs on social sites banning hate speech etc, but when push comes to shove, said sites are very lacklustre at enforcing them - it's near impossible to report a tweet and get any action. But post a copyrighted video and they'll have your account gone in minutes.
If you're a black footballer, whose popularity is essentially creating revenue for said company who then do nothing while your mentions fill up with the vilest racial abuse.
That first para is spot on for me; they won't do much around the ease at which "anonymous" accounts can be set up.
I doubt this will make much difference.
Instead, they'll focus their energies on a post my wife put on Facebook calling a friend a "cheeky monkey" in the context you'd expect. Facebook decided that the post was "offensive" and issued a warning. That'll teach everyone, eh?
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