Paul Pogba: should we end anonymity online?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week, Manchester United footballer, Paul Pogba received racial abuse online from anonymous accounts after he missed a penalty. He’s the third player in a week to be racially abused on social media following a penalty miss. In response, teammate Harry Maguire tweeted that social media users should have to verify their identity before opening an account. Kerry Allen is a media analyst covering China for BBC Monitoring. She explains how social media works in a country where ID checks are enforced on social media. Bernie Hogan from the Oxford Internet Institute focuses on the role of design in social media. He tells us how the format of a social media platform can affect how we nice are to each other. Producer: Duncan Barber Mixed by Andy Mills Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.4	A space to ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, should we end anonymity online?
0:25.0	I'm Sarah Jones, auninity, today.
0:30.0	I'm Sarah Jones, a producer on Beyond Today. I'm sat in Matthew's chair while he's away.
0:37.0	Literally in his chair.
0:39.0	I'm kind of am very interested in social media. I'm also a big football fan.
0:44.0	This is Joey Durso, a journalist here at the BBC.
0:48.0	He spotted the tweet that made us decide to do this episode.
0:52.0	At the weekend, Paul Pogba, the Man United
0:54.3	player, was subject to racist abuse and Harry Maguire, the new Man United
0:58.8	Defender, most expensive Defender of all time, tweeted about this and he said that social media
1:05.2	accounts shouldn't be anonymous and he made quite a specific proposal in his tweet.
1:09.9	Harry McGuire said, disgusting social media needs to do something about it.
1:14.4	Every account that is open should be verified by a passport or driving license.
1:17.9	Stop these pathetic trials making numerous accounts to abuse people.
1:22.1	And I think what's really interesting about Harry McGoy's tweet is he made quite a specific
1:26.6	proposal.
1:27.6	He didn't just say, oh racist abuse is terrible, which I'm sure almost everyone would agree with,
1:31.6	but he said this thing about the passport and driving license,
1:34.3	which taps into this big debate about anonymity on social media.
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