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#Post#: 64857--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: MadMax
Date: April 29, 2021, 6:29 am
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--- Quote from: a_masters link ---
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> You're right, it's completely the players' fault for having
social media...
>
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I don't see anyone blaming the players for having social media
accounts. Is it just me?
#Post#: 64858--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: a_masters
Date: April 29, 2021, 6:42 am
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--- Quote from: MadMax link ---
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> I don't see anyone blaming the players for having social media
accounts. Is it just me?
>
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Unless I'm misreading it, this one seems to lean that way.
--- Quote from: Domestos link ---
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> How about if people just didn't use stuff like facebook,
whatsapp, twitter etc? We have had it in the past where a player
got a bit carried away with a post and said/wrote something they
later regretted.
>
> Are players contractually obliged to have a presence on social
media? If not, why bother?
>
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As T-Bone put it
--- Quote from: T-Bone ---
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> To say that if you don't like getting racist and other abuse
you should just withdraw from social media strikes me as a
pretty weak argument. If women don't like getting assaulted they
should just stop walking around London at night. If young men
don't like getting stabbed they should just stop living in
certain parts of London.
>
--- End Quote ---
#Post#: 64860--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: Rocker
Date: April 29, 2021, 7:26 am
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Twitter is a cesspool and facebook isn't much better. I have
left both.
I hate social media, the only one's I now use are Whatts App for
those who haven't moved to signal yet.
#Post#: 64862--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: Yareet
Date: April 29, 2021, 7:47 am
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--- Quote from: Rocker link ---
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> I hate social media
>
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🤦🏼‍♂️🤣
#Post#: 64863--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: Rocker
Date: April 29, 2021, 7:51 am
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This is hardly social media, or at least I don't consider it to
be so.
#Post#: 64867--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: Hartlequin
Date: April 29, 2021, 8:35 am
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I've always been an advocate of free speech ,but a message needs
to get across that keyboard warriors have no right to use
social media as a platform to carry out online bullying &
racism against individuals & groups .
I've reported vile comments on Twitter & elsewhere on numerous
occasions in the past and no action has been taken, & as a
result now use social media solely as a means of keeping up
to date
The genie is out of the bottle & with social media expanding (
and seemingly self regulatory ) something like this was always
going to happen.
#Post#: 64869--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: Bolly-Quin
Date: April 29, 2021, 8:42 am
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--- Quote from: T-Bone link ---
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> If women don't like getting assaulted they should just stop
walking around London at night. If young men don't like getting
stabbed they should just stop living in certain parts of London.
--- End Quote ---
Not sure about these two statements.
Women should be able to walk anywhere without the fear of being
sexually assaulted - they should take more care, as anyone
should when out late.
Young men (or women) in London, unless extremely gifted Merchant
Bankers or Football players, don't really get a choice of where
their parents live or they are forced to live due to high cost
of rent.
#Post#: 64872--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: MadMax
Date: April 29, 2021, 9:01 am
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--- Quote from: a_masters link ---
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> Unless I'm misreading it, this one seems to lean that way.
>
> "How about if people just didn't use stuff like facebook,
whatsapp, twitter etc? We have had it in the past where a player
got a bit carried away with a post and said/wrote something they
later regretted".
>
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Sorry I can see no sign of that blaming players for having a
social media account. Just some advice.
#Post#: 64880--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: T-Bone
Date: April 29, 2021, 9:19 am
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--- Quote from: Bolly-Quin link ---
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> Not sure about these two statements.
>
> Women should be able to walk anywhere without the fear of
being sexually assaulted - they should take more care, as anyone
should when out late.
>
> Young men (or women) in London, unless extremely gifted
Merchant Bankers or Football players, don't really get a choice
of where their parents live or they are forced to live due to
high cost of rent.
>
--- End Quote ---
I think you may have misunderstood me. I was saying that,
suggesting that people come off social media to avoid abuse is
similar to suggesting that other people change their reasonable
behaviour to avoid criminal behaviour. Victim blaming
essentially. Of course people should be careful in how they go
about their lives and I, as a 6 foot 2, 15ish stone bloke,
wouldn't walk through certain areas at night, but the focus
should be on addressing the unpleasant elements in society
rather than imposing restrictions on the law abiding people.
#Post#: 64882--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of
social media
DIR By: a_masters
Date: April 29, 2021, 9:37 am
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--- Quote from: MadMax link ---
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> Sorry I can see no sign of that blaming players for having a
social media account. Just some advice.
>
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To which I guess the response is, why should they have to avoid
SM? They should be as free to use it as you or I and clearly get
some benefits from it that I assume you don't get (I certainly
don't!), in terms of endorsements, raising profile etc.
Again, T-Bone's response above seems to sum up my views, which
you've agreed with, I should probably just leave him to post
instead of me!
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