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Internet trolls should be held accountable for scathing remarks – Elton John
Music icon, Elton John, has advised that internet trolls be held accountable for abusive comments on social media.
Racial and religious abuses, amongst others, have become hotly debated topics as anonymous accounts target celebrities and other individuals online.
Just recently, Arsenal football legend, Thierry Henry suspended his social media accounts indefinitely until the issue of online abuses are tackled.
This week some Premier League clubs reportedly agreed to boycott social media to protest against online abuses.
Speaking on his Apple Music 1 show Rocket Hour, he said: “We’ve lived through two or three years of divisiveness throughout the whole world, and especially in America, but around the world, and during the lockdown, we’ve seen social media being used to abuse people racially. Not just being gay, but racially as well.
“People are so cruel to each other and it’s because they hide behind their social messaging or whatever they do. If they had to write their names on it, they wouldn’t do it. And I just think it’s just awful that people can write anonymous things about people being gay, being of another political persuasion, religious persuasion, or just plain racial (abuse).”
He added: “I just think that we have to ask ourselves at this time that it’s not good enough for people to be able to post anonymous things online. They have to be accountable for what they say. It’s making the world really divided and it’s really cruel.”
Opening up on anti-Asian hate, he said: “People in America are being abused for being Asian because of the Covid thing, and it’s like, ‘Oh, come on’.
“And it’s all down to the hateful messaging that people are putting on their social network. And we have to do something about it.”
Earlier this week, Elton John teamed up with Rina Sawayama to release a new version of her song ‘Chosen Family’.
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