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Racism is a horrible thing
There is no place for racism in football or in cyberspace.
News Walters and Frederick of Fremantle racially vilified on social media (stay on topic pls)
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Racism is a horrible thing
There is no place for racism in football or in cyberspace.
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this is so OTT disgraceful, must have been hacked into you would think?
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Last line could be on to something.
Insert an algorithm to read and restrict posts.
If we can change an f to a d to avoid people seeing a comparatively less offensive word, surely we can intercept and overwrite such garbage with pictures of puppies or something
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More likely he's just a *in dog
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It wasn't anonymous.
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I think we fit electrodes in babies when born so we can track their thoughts and zap them whenever they start to think of anything which you disagree with.
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Racial vilification is most definitely illegal. Where this one might fall short, is that it has to be done specifically in public. As this was done through private message and made public by either the victim or a 3rd party, it probably wouldn't meet the requirements to be punishable by law.
Unfortunately, this is a bit of a cop out for online trolls.
Racial Vilification Law in Australia
1. Racial Hatred Defined 2. Complaints to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 3. Relevant Federal Cases 4. Other Criminal and Civil Legislation on Racial Vilification
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Nah I reckon Dean actually did it in this case.
He deleted all his socials afterwards.
He even doubled back and went again the next day.
Unreal. That goal on the run must have sent him into a spiral. Toolbag.
FMD, his comments are not only disgusting but they are completely ignorant & juvenile.
Someone needs to go visit Dean Kritikos and show him what a baseball bat feels like !!
Someone needs to go visit Dean Kritikos and show him what a baseball bat feels like !!
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How many articles I wonder does the ABC publish when good things happen in the AFL? Volunteer work, community housing initiatives, community centres, fundraising for MND and countless other initiatives as well as individual initiatives like players looking after terminally ill kids.
Nah, easier to write a negative sensationalist articles with sweeping statements like "the AFL has a racism" problem. It's the only time they do Docos on AFL too.
Get ****ed ABC, there are racists unfortunately everywhere - it's not somehow the entire AFL industry has this problem. It's just as much society's problem as it is Instagram's and AFL's.
Nah, easier to write a negative sensationalist articles with sweeping statements like "the AFL has a racism" problem. It's the only time they do Docos on AFL too.
Get ****ed ABC, there are racists unfortunately everywhere - it's not somehow the entire AFL industry has this problem. It's just as much society's problem as it is Instagram's and AFL's.
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Have you actually read this site? 50% is probably conservative
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Same way we do with every other media company. If a reporter writes something they shouldn't have, both the reporter and publisher get fines etc.
Twitter/Facebook is a just a publisher.
If they're made partially liable for what they publish, then they'll do more to prevent it.
The ABC does write positive articles about those. They are simply reporting what has happened. Stop acting like there is some sort of agenda.
Of course racism exists in the AFL as it exists in every aspect of society, does that mean we are just meant to let it stay that way? The ABC doesn't only cover racism in AFL, I mean yesterday they had a major article on the Race Discrimination Commission's current campaign.
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If a poll was put on this site with the screenshot published earlier (that has the abuse uncensored) and the question: ‘What is your gut reaction to these messages sent to Michael Frederick?’
With the voting options:
How do you think BigFooty would respond?
(Assuming votes in polls were 100% anonymous and people could vote for what they genuinely feel).
Genuine question:
If a poll was put on this site with the screenshot published earlier (that has the abuse uncensored) and the question: ‘What is your gut reaction to these messages sent to Michael Frederick?’
With the voting options:
- The comments make me sick to the stomach
- The guy who posted that needs some help
- Trolls going to trill
- Well it was a dodgy 50m free kick so cut the guy some alack
- Damn right
How do you think BigFooty would respond?
(Assuming votes in polls were 100% anonymous and people could vote for what they genuinely feel).
Got a link so I can put a name to these 'low lifes' ?
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I don't think a lot of the people who would vote the bottom half of that list would be brave or care enough to vote, but you can see from reading the posts in threads how racist people on here are. As an example, there was a guy in the Richmond board arguing that RCD was a soft player because he has gay parents. I doubt he'd bother voting.
I reckon there's be a 50/50 split between the first 2 options and the second 2 though. Just look at the reaction to the booing of Adam goodes. Plenty people openly said it was their right for having paid their money.
And dismissing it as 'trolls gonna troll' is condoning it and just as bad.
But if all was anonymous and everyone voted, I reckon 15% the last option, 15% the second last and 25% trolls gonna troll which I co sider the same.
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Do you read ABC News? They publish these often.
BTN - for classroom news:
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Yeah, and why does the news only report on car crashes and not the thousands of cars that drive safely?!
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