Rugby: a person prosecuted in Australia for cyberharassment against a referee at the last World Cup. World Rugby welcomes this first case brought to justice thanks to its online abuse detection system.
Other cases are underway in five jurisdictions thanks to the implementation of this program to combat online harassment. “Online abuse, odious and toxic, is unfortunately commonplace” says Alan Gilpin, Managing Director of World Rugby.. At the end of the last. World Cup, English referee Wayne Barnes, who notably led the South Africa-New Zealand. final, retired, citing the threats he and his family had received.