ESPN. Praised for quickly responding to complaint
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ESPN cuts teams with anti-Semitic names
Wiesenthal Center says among offensive fantasy leagues names on sports network's website were 'Jews are Immoral' and 'Jews are Terrible'
ESPN has removed fantasy leagues with anti-Semitic names from its website after the Simon Wiesenthal Center pointed them out.
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The Jewish human rights organization is praising the sports network for quickly responding to its complaint, which it brought to ESPN’s attention last week.
The Wiesenthal Center says that among the offensive team names were “Jews are Immoral” and “Jews Are Terrible.”
Network spokesman Josh Krulewitz said that while ESPN has systems in place to protect against inappropriate team and league names “clearly with millions of users and deceptive ways around the safeguards, we can never completely eliminate it.”
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Wiesenthal Center said that ESPN responded in good faith to its concerns.
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