TV EXCLUSIVE: Arsenal's CEO on tackling online hate & Thierry Henry's social media boycott

In a TV exclusive interview with Sky Sports, Arsenal's chief executive Vinai Venkatesham spoke with Bryan Swanson after the club launched a campaign aimed at stopping online abuse. Venkatesham said that “nothing is off the table” and Arsenal would consider joining Thierry Henry’s boycott of social media if more is not done to prevent online abuse towards their players.

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[cenk]

The interviewer asks the same question 3 times, at that point I would’ve just left the call

[MusaOzilOfficial]

Still shocked at the death of Claude ☹️ Arsenal where 1 day too late..

[goonergossiptv]

Very intelligent interview and I think something has to be done on social media to stop discrimination or any form of abuse. I'm glad my club had took a stand and I hope there will be a change one day on social media.

[TheOriginalCM]

Vinai a month later: *signs up to ESL*

[shah]

You just know this guy watched the Sheffield United owner interview and thought go on then 😂

[shadmanaziz]

Wont lie this isnt what I expected the CEO of arsenal to look like

[dar]

Very astute interview by Vinai. Wouldn't expect less from him

[CB-lwty]

Online hate will be a thing as long as you can be anonymous online, the second you have to have a registered account that has your name and face to it that your family/friends/work can see, people would reign it in considerably, there'll still be idiots out there but alot less. Unfortunately fake/multiple profiles are more useful to these companies than real accounts and people will be outraged that they can't have privacy online anymore despite what privacy online is giving us now.

[diegoloera]

He never mentioned the disgraceful attempts of joining the Super League. Typical PR noise to drive up merchandise sales 👎

[mphworld_]

Well spoken, education needs to be given to the growing community, hard to understand why we even have this problem. The people that do this are an imbarresment to themselves and need to be stopped.

[TheMessiahKOI]

Who the F cares about any of this when Stan Kroenke doesn't give a TRUCK about Arsenal.
KROENKE OUT

[AnkitKshatriya]

I have been off social media for a couple of years now. I don't miss anything.

[abdirahindahir]

It’s good that our CEO is talking about how to tackle the online hate. Also, Arsenal fans want to know what is the plan of the board to make The team come back into champions league and be competitive again. Also, the fans want know our transfer plan this summer.

[benrichards]

You can lock and or block people from interacting with your account. If your still not happy, get off it. I hate people who expect others to solve your problems by making everyones life less free. Say No to Censorship.

[tayeebhussain]

Someone called vinai a sri lankan fraud he isn't even sri lankan.

[robinson]

I agree its getting out of hand and some channels hide behind the fact its banter... no its borderline hate speech and racial abuse.

[rufusblagden]

VINAI 🤬🤬, This don is rotting our club, this has nothing to do with this video but just saying

[wildsurfer]

I wish he was this articulate with the fans about why they’re paying £2000 a year for a season ticket when they finished 8th in the league last season.

[cairoreid]

Vinia do me a favour an focus on arsenal because were 11th in the league

[stephenord]

Social media ffs. Never done it, never will. Those who use it need it because it's their life, nowt better to do