{"id":309340,"date":"2025-11-26T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309340\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:19:09","slug":"we-have-to-act-games-bid-to-block-out-online-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309340\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We have to act’: Game’s bid to block out online trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basketball Australia, the NBL and WNBL have joined forces with Social Protect to address the issue<\/p>\n

Social Protect isa platform which identifies and removes abusive comments on social mediaAdelaide 36ers DJ Vasiljevic said he gets “worked up” about attacks on his familyThe WNBL, NBL and Basketball Australia have joined forces with Social Protect<\/p>\n

Fed up Australian basketballers have welcomed a move to tackle \u201cvile\u201d online abuse <\/a>via an app whose founder is determined to make a difference after having a young family member attempt suicide due to cyber bullying, writes Matt Logue from Code Sports Basketball<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Code Sports revealed the NBL, WNBL and Basketball Australia have joined forces with Social Protect, an online safety platform helping athletes, teams and organisations protect themselves from harmful online interactions.<\/p>\n

Social Protect \u2013 founded and created by CEO Shane Britten \u2013 is a real-time platform that identifies and removes abusive comments across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Discord by tracking over two million abusive words and phrases in more than 100 languages. <\/p>\n

The timing of the partnership is of paramount importance given online abuse aimed at Australian basketballers has never been more frequent. <\/p>\n

NBL and WNBL players told Code Sports how death threats, racism, sexism, abuse and misogyny is rife and a daily occurrence for some players. Sports gambling interest in the NBL space has increased significantly in recent seasons on the back of the competition\u2019s rise.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Censored versions of hurtful messages received by NBL players on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Bets involving individual players are particularly problematic, but the abuse extends beyond being motivated by gambling. <\/p>\n

Adelaide 36ers sharpshooter Dejan Vasiljevic has been subjected to countless vilifying messages throughout his career, including death threats, and says the time has come for authorities to crack down harder to \u201cstop the abuse\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that some people think it is OK to jump on social media and message us directly saying, \u2018you\u2019re s**t\u2019 and \u2018go kill yourself\u2019 just shows that people live a very sad life,\u201d Vasiljevic said.<\/p>\n

\u201cS**t days happen and I know that everyone is human.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get worked up about it. I\u2019ve had cracks at me, but if you include my mum or my family, I will take it to the highest possible level and you will face the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the full story on Code Sports Basketball, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball Australia, the NBL and WNBL have joined forces with Social Protect to address the issue Social Protect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-309340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}