Free speech allows people to have their say, within reason, but it doesn’t guarantee their right to hide their identity
You meet the most fascinating people in football. At the English Football League awards this week, I ended up in the hotel bar with an eminent figure in the football industry, who is no less eminent in his field of work outside the game.
We got talking about social media. He lamented the damage that relentless trolling does to the game. My friend has a simple solution: do away with online anonymity. He advocates forcing social media companies to make those who use their platforms do so as themselves, their identities authenticated by means of bank account details or whatever other means it takes.
Continue reading...from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2UrFVI2
