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"This summer we saw the beautiful game marred by disgraceful racism from online trolls, who hid behind their keyboards and abused our footballers," Patel was quoted as saying by British media.
"Those responsible for appalling racist abuse online must be punished. The changes to the law I am announcing will make sure they are banned from attending football matches."
The new law will be brought forward early in the new year, British media reported, in the form of an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
Eh, online is good for sharing ideas, any actionable call to actions already are monitored/ fedposting, so it’s chilly already I would say, the rest is done irl
Sure but if parts of the public order act were enforced in the digital space things like guillotine memes, crabs and celebrating the fact Thatcher is very much dead might become off the table as all of them are very obviously going to cause offence to someone.