Rejected petition Tougher measures / laws for online football abuse.

Bring in some laws around online racism that relates to football.

More details

I’m distraught for England and their loss last night. The players will be feeling bad enough , but to see the online racist abuse that people have been giving towards the players is heartbreaking. I just want it to stop, people need to be punished. What has race got to do with the end result of football. This is going to knock the players back so much and spiral their mental health. I have been extremely emotional about this all day, I cannot imagine how the players are feeling. Totally ashamed.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Produce and enforce a zero-tolerance strategy to end racism on social media: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591720

Require social media platforms’ terms of use to prohibit racism and hate speech: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591760

Increase legal penalties for those convicted of online racial abuse: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591776

Require Social media sites review every post/comment before publication: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/582820

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 12 July 2021
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.