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Chambers: Any Social Media Abuse is Unacceptable - Ipswich Town News

Blues skipper Luke Chambers has added his voice to those calling on social media companies to take stronger action against online abuse in football.

In the wake of racist abuse aimed at Manchester United pair Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba, and Chelsea pair Kurt Zouma and Tammy Abraham among others, the PFA, anti-racist organisation Kick It Out and clubs have met with representatives of Twitter to discuss racism and online abuse in general. There has also been talk of players boycotting social media in protest.

"It is unacceptable, any form of abuse - not just racism," Chambers writes in his column in Saturday’s programme. "These people shouldn’t be allowed to get away with saying what they want on social media.

"There is talk of people having to give identity details now to use the social media platforms and I can’t see anything against that as long as the data is protected.

"The abuse on social media has always been there but it’s getting worse, particularly the racism. It’s going to get worse if no one does anything about it though.

"It looks as though clubs are beginning to put pressure on Twitter to do something about it now and rightly so.

"People seem to be able to say what they want. I’m not sure there have been too many examples of where people have been prosecuted for comments so there doesn’t seem to be a deterrent. The social media companies need to do more. That’s obvious.”

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