Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Racist Abuse Results in Closure of BBC Asian Cricket Online Board

A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

An online message board dedicated to Indian and Pakistani cricket fans on the BBC Web site has been shut down after some users began posting racist and religious abuse, the broadcaster said on Wednesday.

Some contributors on BBC's Test Match Special South Asian board had written messages supporting the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, another glorified Hitler and others insulted the Hindu and Muslim faiths.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home