"Will it change anything? It might, for a day or a week, but then it will creep back in." There are lengthier replies, I'll keep mine short. Pointless.
I like the idea, purely because it puts more pressure on the social media companies to begin to do stuff about the abuse on their platforms. I reported a tweet saying all gay men were *****philes (in much more graphic language) and they should be killed. It took two months for it to be removed. Twitter and the like can't keep skirting around this issue for much longer, especially if things like this become more frequent. They will begin to lose traffic.
We do loads of social media on matchdays, competitions, pre match zoom chats, commentary on Facebook, Twitter and Insta and supporter written match previews. This week we planned in the Supporters Player Of The Season, to run on all channels. So I am now working on alternatives. As for suggesting members boycott, we are supposed to be the Official Supporters Club and you know that fingers would point if we kept suit. No complaints by the way, it is what it is and as I said damned...
Blackpool Football Club is appalled by the abhorrent, racist abuse received by Grant Ward following the team’s fixture at Sunderland last night. The contents of the message, on his Instagram account, have since been reported to the social media platform and are now being investigated by the police. Grant has the Club’s full and unwavering support in this matter, as we continue to collectively take a stand in the fight against racism and online hatred. Enough is enough.
I’ve no idea how Twitter and Instagram etc work and I don’t want to. This was posted on his Instagram account, he shouldn’t have to, but can’t you make it private or just for friends? And is it easy for the police to trace someone who posts with Instagram or Twitter?
You can make social media accounts private only, but players tend to keep them open so they can speak directly to fans. The police will only go to the trouble of tracking someone down if it's something really serious, I think they need court orders and stuff to get access to social media users contact details (though in a lot of cases, someone who knows the idiot who posted will put up their real name, which obviously makes life easier for them). I've noticed that a lot of the really bad stuff aimed at players seems to come from accounts in South America and there's nothing police here can do about them.
It depends, you can make your profile private on Twitter so that you can only get stuff from friends. As for police tracing, yeah, they can track people pretty quickly. I've found a few people before who've caused people I know serious problems, proper internet anonymity isn't something these idiots know very much about.
My lad was saying awhile back a load of abuse to Man U players when they lost was coming from Saudi n places like that
I'm no expert but could an abuser in UK, using a VPN and connecting to a South American country, and then send a message, which I assume would show the IP address was in South America?
Social Media accounts don't show IP addresses, you just know they're in South America, because of their name/what it says in their bio and most of their posts are in Spanish or Portuguese.
The answer is yes & no. Depends on the sophistication of the VPN provider, and obviously the technical expertise of the agencies trying to track you down. The laws in the countries providing the VPN services (or lack of laws and international agreements between the jurisdictions involved) will dictate how far the probing/discovery could progress. As you can see below - opinions all over the map... https://www.quora.com/Does-a-VPN-hi...st-show-a-different-IP-from-the-same-location
