Piers Morgan has spoken out after the racist abuse aimed at some of the England squad (Picture: Getty)Piers Morgan has called for those who sent racist abuse to the England football players after their defeat against Italy to be held accountable. They went on to face horrific racist abuse online, with many stars calling for social media companies to do more to prevent it. But if you want to directly target black sportsmen and women with racist abuse on social media (or homophobia, transphobia, misogyny etc for that matter) you don’t. Stars including Katie Price, Adil Ray, and Vicky McClure are among 600,000 who have signed a petition to ban anonymous accounts on social media. ‘However, restricting all users’ right to anonymity, by introducing compulsory user verification for social media, could disproportionately impact users who rely on anonymity to protect their identity.

Source: Metro July 13, 2021 17:03 UTC