11 hours agoSwansea boycotts social media to fight “disgusting abuse”
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The well-known Welsh team playing the Championship that played the English Premier League, Swansea City, has decided all players along with staff to boycott social media for a week to turn against Facebook and Twitter discrimination. By 5: 00 p.m. today [ Thursday], the first team [...]
By 5 p.m. this afternoon [ Thursday], the first Swansea City team, along with the academy players, will post nothing in social media for seven days, and neither the Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Snapchat, YouTube or TikTok club.
Bertant Celine also played in this club until about a year ago.
Last Friday, football player Jamal Lowe became the third football player of Swanseeat, who was abused at the racial base in Instagram in less than two months.
The others were Yan Danda in February, and Ben Cabango in March, writes The Guardian, translated Periscopi into Albanian.
In a statement, Swansea wrote: “We've seen many of our players as long as they've only been disfigured in the last seven weeks, and we feel it's fair to take a stand against the behavior that has become a disease in our sport, and the whole society. ”
Even famous players have been abused online on racial grounds.
Thierry Henry last month put an end to the social media presence, saying he would not return until the companies took seriously the radiation and racism. /Periscope
