Jason Lee of the Professional Footballers’ Association thinks as abuse of gamers on media continues, we’ve reached crisis stage.
Former striker Lee, today the Equalities Education Executive of the PFA, was talking after Reading striker Yakou Meite, Tammy Abraham and Paul Pogba were recently targeted on media platforms.
Pogba’s Manchester United Charlton’s and team-mate Marcus Rashford Lyle Taylor have been subjected to racist abuse on the web.
Lee, who played with Nottingham Forest and Watford, welcomed the encounters the PFA have had with Twitter to help eliminate players’ online abuse, but believes more must be done in order to help address the problem.
“We have arrived at a place where it is catastrophe so far as we’re concerned,” Lee told Sky Sports News.
“Everybody needs to come to the table, we will need to try and thrash out it and come to a conclusion and attempt to eliminate what it’s happening.
“To be honest to Twitter, they would have been among the very first to get out to people and we’ve had two encounters together and they have been positive meetings.
“Coming out of this, they have shown a real willingness to work together and enhance things and to participate with the gamers.
“It is important they talk to the players directly. We can all speak on behalf of players but more to the point, if there’s a dialogue we’ve established and opened, [it can] give gamers the chance to voice their issues to the horse’s mouth.”
Twitter have released a new statement in which they affirmed they will continue to work together with all the PFA and the organisation Kick Out to attempt to prevent abuse of gamers on their platform.
“In the past two weeks, we’ve taken action on over 700 examples of abuse and hateful conduct associated with UK football,” it read.
“This informative article has no place on our services. We’ll continue to take swift action on the minority which try to undermine the conversation for most.
“Working with the PFA, we’ll take part in their participant coaching programme also will be joining a set of educational sessions using its own membership to support the PFA’s vision to tackle the situation.
“Dealing with Kick It Out, we will continue our working relationship with UK policing to additional short them and provide training on our policies, processes and committed 24/7 reporting stations for law enforcement.
“We want to play our role in curbing this improper behaviour – both offline and online – and will keep on engaging with clubs and partners, protecting the conversation out of misuse, and taking rapid action on accounts that violate our rules”
There have been numerous events where players have been racially abused on the pitch lately, with monkey chants.
A section of the Inter ultras group’Curva Nord’ subsequently insisted that the monkey chants aimed at Lukaku by Cagliari lovers were not supposed to be racist.
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