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More severe punishment (sentencing) for racial abuse on social media.

Submitted on Monday 12th July 2021

Rejected on Monday 19th July 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

More severe punishment (sentencing) for racial abuse on social media.

Petition Details

In light of the racial abuses that England black players had to face because of yesterday’s Euro cup final ( 11 July 2021). There should be stricter legislations to curb these racial abusers.

Additional Information

The country should take a sticker stand on racism, specially since yesterday after the Euro cup final.


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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.

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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: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591720

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

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

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