Social media boycott

[blandford_cherry]

https://www.afcb.co.uk/news/club-ne...bxje_2dagcrt_jzjcsertlfyu97w7urzoe-3nwx5khonk

 

[AlGard]

Nothing new. Jeff does it all the time when questions need answering.

 

[Bitzer]

Nothing new. Jeff does it all the time when questions need answering.

Exactly. Our board have bucked the trend for years with their social media boycott.

 

[Ken Baileys Ghost]

Three and a half whole days of not being able to read the dull, repetitive everyday minutiae of my heroes?

What am I going to do?

maybe go out and kick the shite out of some racists.


It'll have more effect than their boycott.

 

[table]

How are we going to know if they've had a good training session and how's Cookie going to convey "It's a defeat and they all hurt but we go again on Saturday"
: )

 

[Neil Dawson]

I know. I will never know now if they’ve taken the learnings and moved on, and are concentrating on Wycombe. What if they haven’t moved on? Learnt nothing? Do they know it’s Wycombe up next?

They need to reconsider this.

 

[Kenya Cherrie]

I can't see the ladies being able to stay off facebook.

 

[Kudos]

It's bloody pathetic taking a weekend off social media.

It's like protesting supermarket practices by delaying your weekly shop.by a day.

 

[Topfarrier]

Wow those racists are going to have to start behaving after this.

 

[GaryRB]

Most players have been boycotting it for years, employing 3rd parties to run their media accounts

 

[AlGard]

Fully supportive of all sports teams and their players for taking this stance.

I mean, when you have incompetent Police forces like Dorset investigating racial abuse, you really have no chance.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/s...-Danjuma-Facebook-administrative-blunder.html

 

[SlowDownDerek]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1388040427266260995

https://twitter.com/x/status/1386996163862224896

 

[TCherry]

They'll never eliminate online abuse until people are held accountable for the things they type. I realise this is an obvious thing to say but not a lot seems to be forcing Facebook and companies like that to open up their accounts for police forces to track these people down.

 

[Neil Dawson]

It's bloody pathetic taking a weekend off social media.

It's like protesting supermarket practices by delaying your weekly shop.by a day.

It’s symbolic though. A lot of things start with symbolism. I don’t think the people putting flowers in the guns of Russian soldiers in Budapest were thinking ‘that bullet will never get past that petal’. You have to start somewhere, very few protests damage companies on day one.

 

[RobTrent]

It’s symbolic though. A lot of things start with symbolism. I don’t think the people putting flowers in the guns of Russian soldiers in Budapest were thinking ‘that bullet will never get past that petal’. You have to start somewhere, very few protests damage companies on day one.

I wasn't sure about it, but you make a very good, and agreeable, point.

 

[Mark WFC]

They'll never eliminate online abuse until people are held accountable for the things they type. I realise this is an obvious thing to say but not a lot seems to be forcing Facebook and companies like that to open up their accounts for police forces to track these people down.

I guess the hope will be this is all stooped on official platforms but you won't stop those unofficial accounts and sites who allow this to go on.

 

[NWCherries98]

If anything surely having to mass boycott social media is admitting that the trolls have won? I really don’t see what kind of statement this is making or how it will help in any way lol. They’ll just resume abuse on Monday.

 

[New Old Cherry]

Absolute waste of time!

It would need to be weeks or months to have any impact.!

 

[stanthevan]

If anything surely having to mass boycott social media is admitting that the trolls have won? I really don’t see what kind of statement this is making or how it will help in any way lol. They’ll just resume abuse on Monday.

It's not aimed at the trolls. It's aimed at the social media giants who do absolutely nothing to combat racism on their forums. Yet someone I know put a picture of a local water ditch, correctly referred to it as a dyke and had his post removed by Facebook.

 

[TrevorMorganFanClub]

3-4 days of losing a percentage of advertising revenue is a start when it comes to these companies need for massive profits, particularly with the threat of longer boycotts in the future.

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