Taking the knee

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Should football continue to take the knee?

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brb said:
I suppose once you start bringing in te technology to stop racial abuse, the question I would ask is why stop just at racial abuse?

Comments such as spastic, mong, ****, etc are also offensive, should Comm get banned next time he asks @BobbyD about his 'chinky' - I've even been told on this forum to go kill myself. Hence the problem being, there are many forms of offensive language aside from racism. If restrictions were brought in, the site owner might eventually have to bin a lot of content in GC. We seem to look at this from a tunnel vision of racism, but social media monitoring would surely have to go beyond that, if people demand measures are brought in. What we might deem as non offensive, the powers that be, may decide otherwise, so at what point does it encroach on freedom of speech. That's not saying racism shouldn't be stamped out, it's just I can't see it stopping at just that, once the cyber police are allowed to monitor our interactions.
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I’d just ban the Internet mate, it’s full of ****s anyway. But then I’d ban almost everything that’s happened in England since 1979 <ok>
 
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It's from the scum, but the man's got a point.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
"How do you explain to a black footballer that pirated content is taken down in minutes but not racist abuse?"
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I've said this before, but it's my belief that the justice system in this country is largely based on protecting property and things with a financial value rather than the people themselves.

For example, people get a longer stretch in prison for defrauding the banks than ****s convicted of rape get.
 
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Libby said:
I've said this before, but it's my belief that the justice system in this country is largely based on protecting property and things with a financial value rather than the people themselves.

For example, people get a longer stretch in prison for defrauding the banks than ****s convicted of rape get
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Depends whose doing the defrauding tbh, if its a poor person, yeah, they'll get ****ed, but a rich person, they might get a couple of years in an open prison max.
And it's always been the case that the law is there to protect the wealth of the rich, they did write them after all, they woulda been a bit stupid to **** themselves over.
 
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I think RCL raised a fair point with me over content, that I hadn't thought of, in that we have both posted copyright material that gets removed instantly and warning issued. In RCL's case his social media platform banned him for a week.

So it's a very valid point, how come they can protect the rights of the FA and EFL, yet can't protect people from racial content!
 
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