There are lots of things FIFA “should” take action about. Corruption, cheating, racism, hate speech. I am not holding my breath.

But the incidents of which you speak is not a FIFA event, it is the Olympics. I would say it is the IOC’s responsibility to speak out and to remove any fan that makes a place unsafe.

oh wait, IOC is just as corrupt as FIFA.

Hooligans! You expect to shame them into behaving civilly? Good luck with that.

Somebody should speak up, but as @zenvelo mentioned, it should be the IOC.

Legal or ethical?

Legally, not at all. No responsibility.

Ethically, probably yes, but remember that those uncouth idiots are also soccer fans, and they help pay the bills. So FIFA has a pretty fine line to walk.

If any group has responsibility, as others have said, it is the IOC. But they’re a unch of disconnected old corrupt fools, so they won’t.

^ Should Fluther be held responsible for it’s user’s ageist speech?

Everyone, please get a grip.

They do penalise teams for the behaviour of their hooligan fans. So, maybe.
@SecondHandStoke old people smell
also, it is ” its users’ ”

^ Also, my statement was sarcasm.

Remove the furry head and take a deep breath to relax.

I would rather FIFA take a stance ,but I don’t see it happening soon. Plus, as mentioned above, they have bigger fish to fry.

Ignoring this kind of behavior normalizes it and can even make some people think that it is being implicitly endorsed. So yes, I think that FIFA and the IOC should denounce this sort of behavior and have some policies in place to intervene if it gets out of hand. They shouldn’t be policing every stray remark, but they do have a responsibility to keep the spectators in check when they go too far. So if the hate speech is really as rampant as the article suggests, it’s time for FIFA and the IOC to step in. They won’t, of course, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t.

@zenvelo Olympic football is a joint IOC/FIFA event. FIFA has its hands in every major association football event in the world.

@SecondHandStoke Having a duty to respond is not the same as being held responsible. Fluther should not be held responsible for its users’ bigotry, but it is responsible for moderating it when it goes too far. And the moderators would be derelict in their duties if they allowed rampant bigotry on the site.