Football and online hate
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
England’s black players received a wave of racist abuse after the team lost to Italy in the European Championship final. What could the social platforms do to end such behaviour? Plus websites associated with the hacker group REvil go offline. And why an old Super Mario 64 video game cartridge sold for $1.5m at auction. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC senior tech reporter Jane Wakefield, and BBC cybersecurity reporter Joe Tidy. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: England footballer Marcus Rashford, Credit: PA).
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| 0:44.9 | trends from the technology world. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week the social media |
| 0:49.8 | giants are in the dock again over online abuse of England's black footballers following the |
| 0:54.3 | European Championships final. We'll discuss the pressure on them to do more to police their |
| 0:59.3 | platforms. A notorious Russia-based ransomware gang has disappeared from the dark web. Has it been |
| 1:05.8 | forced offline by law enforcement? And would you pay one and a half million dollars for Super Mario? We'll find out |
| 1:12.9 | about a record-breaking auction of a historic video game. Joining me this week is BBC Senior Tech |
| 1:18.7 | Reporter Jane Wakefield. Hi Jane. How's your week been? It's been good, yes. Thank you, Rory. I've been |
| 1:24.3 | desperately trying to find another event to go to because last week I managed to escape and go to an actual real live conference. |
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