Lineker addresses Musk about threatened son on Twitter

Gary Lineker has turned to Elon Musk, as owner of Twitter, for the threats sent to his 30-year-old son George from an anonymous account via the social network.

He had received phrases such as "you must be burned at the stake" as well as some insults in the days of the fiery controversy over the tweets of his father, a former football champion and television commentator suspended by the BBC for comparing the government's "language" on immigration to that " of Germany in the 1930s", only to be later reinstated by popular acclaim.

Controversy that had also involved George.

"Is all this acceptable?" Lineker wrote in a tweet addressed to Musk in a sort of appeal to strengthen controls against possible abuse and threats on social media by the so-called keyboard lions.

Earlier in the day, the sports commentator's son had 'tweeted' referring to his online experience: 'Social media is crazy, isn't it? suffered so much abuse."

The Lineker case effectively ended with a backtracking by the BBC and according to the official version with an agreement that provides for "an independent review" of the internal guidelines on the political impartiality required on paper of those who work in state television, even from freelance and also in the private use of social media.

Lines that the former footballer had been accused of violating with his tweet and the indirect reference to Nazi Germany.