Strathclyde Police are set to swoop of 50 targets to clamp down on on-line crime.
As well as websites promoting racist or sectarian hatred individuals who post similar material on social media sites such as facebook and twitter will also be arrested.
“This is not a final warning,” Superintendent Kirk Kinnell of Strathclude Police told the Daily Record.
“We know who we are targeting. We have at least 50 live inquiries and we will be coming to the home addresses of people in the near future.”
“All of the inquiries are at different stages. It is a complex process but there is no hiding place on the internet.
“It is a broad-ranging inquiry and we are looking at comments about various individuals. This goes back to before the latest parcel bomb incidents.
“So some of them are sectarian comments about Neil Lennon and some are racist comments about El Hadji-Diouf, for example. But all are violent and hate-filled.
“These kind of comments have become particularly prolific over recent weeks and that has brought it into focus for us.
“It is at the point where they have become filled with hate and anger and are likely to incite violent behaviour so we are acting on these as quickly as we can.
“Everywhere we find people spreading the disease of hate online is where we will focus our activity.”
“It is not difficult for us to track these people. We have cooperation from the Internet Service Providers Association and media companies which facilitate websites. They are helping us to identify those responsible.
“This operation will continue for as long as it needs to. We will be relentless in tracking these people down until they stop posting this kind of abuse on the internet.
“And if it stops in the coming weeks but flares up again next season, we will be right back on top of them again.”
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Ah “whataboutery” at work again…. The Scottish police couldn’t arrest those responsible for formeting sectarian hate against Lennon, a campaign that has (hopefully) peaked with bombs in the post, without implicating Celtic fans in it by association. There’s no defending those who post racist comments online – are they going to go back and track comments made when Diouf played at other teams – or is it just Celtic fans they’re interested in?
the police should be making it clear this is a step against the racist, sectarian, bigots who have conducted a hate campaign against lennon that has resulted in 4 BOMBS being sent to people throughout scotland. the hate campaign has escalated to sickening proportions and it should be made clear this is taking priority, but yet again they lump celtic fans in with it. of course people making racist comments to diouf should be punished but at this moment in time they should be making it clear that they are looking to tackle the sectarian race incited attempted murder of lennon and others, whataboutary, in my opinion is ridiculous . yet again the police are too scared to confront this problem without adding celtic in the mix. and they dont exactly need to be tracing people online when they had tens of thousands of people screaming racist and sectarian abuse in front of hundreds of police officers at the cup final, unfortunately at that time the racist bigots were PRAISED by the same police force, not arrested.
If the police are so serious about this why have they not arrested any of the youth players involved in the hate comments , they know who they are , where they are ..should be easy enough ?