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Britons who post racist content will be barred from attending football matches, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced amid a flurry of demands for censorship following England’s loss to Italy.
Boris Johnson’s government has pounced on the furore surrounding the abuse directed towards Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka — all of whom missed crucial penalty kicks at the end of Sunday’s match against Italy — in order to push for more censorship from big tech companies and to ban “racists” from attending football matches.
Despite reports that some 70 per cent of online racist abuse surrounding English football originates overseas, the prime minister told the House of Commons on Wednesday that the government will take “practical steps to ensure that the football banning order regime is changed”.
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