captain red dog wrote:I do think social media should have some form of ID varification. I suppose I'd equate it to something like having a phone line installed in your house, it would be very difficult to make completely untraced racist phone calls in the UK for example as it is all traceable.
It doesn't need to spell the end for Internet anonymity, just for the major sites like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram etc. The ones that have a real monopoly on the market.
I think that would stop a lot of racist abuse, and any that persist would be traceable.
The players unions should really organise a proper boycott and threaten to set up their own FA/UEFA/FIFA site/app for players to speak directly to fans. Twitter in particular fail to act over and over and it seems to be getting worse and not better.
We should destroy the right of anonymity for gay, trans, victims of domestic abuse and those living under tyrannical regimes, plus all the people that don't have/can't afford ID to catch a few racists?
Billions of people left without a voice, just to catch people that (as we've seen) use their real names and put their employer in their bio?
Great plan.