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Make one instance of racial abuse on social media grounds for a lifetime ban.

Submitted on Monday 12th July 2021

Rejected on Monday 19th July 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make one instance of racial abuse on social media grounds for a lifetime ban.

Petition Details

Introduce legislation/guidelines for social media companies in which one instance of racial abuse or racist rhetoric on social media leads to a lifetime ban on that platform.
This can be through community guidelines being monitored or another user reporting the post.

Additional Information

There needs to be a way to stop racial abuse that does not impede freedom of expression for those that use social media appropriately. If a single comment can equate to a lifetime ban from that platform this will protect other users from racist abuse as well as showing a zero tolerance approach to such rhetoric.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

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:

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

Social media companies to be held accountable for racially abusive posts: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591688

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

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

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

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