Wilfried Zaha has steered social media firms to require extra main points to arrange accounts to keep away from “stupid, racist cowards” having the ability to arrange nameless profiles.
The Crystal Palace winger used to be racially abused on-line forward of the defeat at Aston Villa on Sunday, with a 12-year-old boy arrested by way of police investigating the messages.
On Monday, Zaha, 27, mentioned it used to be “not the first time” he had gained such messages and known as for social media firms to “seek out” the ones chargeable for racist task on social media.
“People need to understand that whatever your age, your behaviour and your words come with consequences and you cannot hide behind social media,” he mentioned.
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“It is important that social media companies do as they did yesterday [Sunday] and seek out these individuals and remove them.”
Zaha added: “It’s not enough to be disgusted by these messages I received and move on. It isn’t enough to just say #notoracism. We need action, we need education, things need to change.”
And in an Instagram tale on Tuesday, the Ivory Coast superstar known as for stricter sign-up protocols to lend a hand save you racist task on social media.
He mentioned: “Social platforms like Instagram and Twitter : to make a change for people to not be able to do stuff and be held accountable for the stuff they send, everyone should put their proper details – where you live, everything – to be able to create an account, so people don’t get these messages.
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“These stupid, racist cowards, that’s all they do – hide behind accounts.
“And it’s going to carry on. We can put it everywhere, we can put on the news wherever, but it’s going to carry on.
“So, yeah, until these things have changed, I don’t want to hear nothing, sorry. For the kind, supportive stuff people have been saying but I want action, I want change.
“Instagram, Twitter: unless people give their proper full details, they should not be allowed to make an account, because that’s all cowards do.”
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