Indian-origin Nikhil Ravi Shankar becomes airline boss, New Zealand Media inactive comments for mass trolling on social media
After appointing Nikhil Ravi Shankar of Indian origin as the new Chief Executive of Air New Zealand, the country’s media said that he had to neutralize comments on social media as there was a barrage of racist comments targeting Ravi Shankar’s ethnicity. Ravi Shankar was the chief digital officer of Air New Zealand before obtaining promotion, which is the first for an Indian original person in the country.New Zealand Herald, Radio New Zealand, 1news stated that they had to disable comments because they could not allow hatred. New Zealand Herald issued a statement, making it clear that there were several racist comments, due to which he had to take extreme steps. “We appreciate high levels of interest in this story, but cannot safely moderate it at this time,” the news outlet said in a post in a thread of comment.“We want to promote a safe online community by reducing the examples of hatred, racism, misconduct and misinformation. We welcome your response to articles, but some parameters should be, and these have been explained in our community home rules … We cannot tolerate hatred. We can not say social media in our stories or other comments,” Is. Radio New Zealand had to do the same on the social media post on the appointment of Ravi Shankar. A RNZ spokesperson said, “Under the policy of RNZ’s comments, we will neutralize comments on the positions that can attract derogatory or harmful comments or when resources require,” said a spokesman of RNZ. The spokesperson said, “In this example, the comment was disabled after our surveillance.” “We want people to feel safe and respected on our community forums and will continue to disable the comments where necessary. We will not tolerate harmful communication. ,1news said it found a large number of comments in the post that announced the appointment of Ravi Shankar and a vast majority were inappropriate.
Who is Nikhil Ravi Shankar?
Nikhil Ravi Shankar was born in India, but was brought to New Zealand. He studied in New Zealand – Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Graduate in the University of Auckland (Honor). Before joining Air New Zealand, Ravi Shankar was the chief digital officer in New Zealand (since 2017), and also served as a managing director in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand and also served in senior technology roles in Spark (East Telecom NZ).
