What steps can sports organisations take to protect officials and athletes from online abuse?

Friday, 05 July 2024
Writer: Wayne Barnes , Grace King, Olivia Canessa Davies

“We now have gone from a vertical society to a horizontal society the place everyone has an opinion about each determination you make, and everyone has an opinion on the Web immediately.”[1]

In 2024, former Arsenal Supervisor Arsène Wenger’s phrases couldn’t be extra relatable. The web has many fantastic options. It permits us to share, create, encourage, generate earnings, elevate consciousness, and meet new folks. It has given us entry to issues that Wenger wouldn’t have even thought of when he made that assertion. And with social media, it permits us direct entry to those that we have no idea and will by no means meet. It’s this direct entry, wrapped in a cloak of web anonymity, coupled with the assumption that there shall be no consequence for what is alleged or executed on-line, that has led to a dramatic progress in on-line abuse over the previous decade.

This text examines the issue of on-line abuse because it pertains to sports activities women and men and officers, and explores what extra will be executed to handle the problems:

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Wayne Barnes

Wayne Barnes is a accomplice in Squire Patton Boggs’ Authorities Investigations & White Collar Follow, based mostly within the London workplace. He’s an skilled legal barrister and trial advocate with greater than twenty years of expertise conducting complicated, inner and company investigations throughout a number of jurisdictions.