Emma Roberts calls for regulation of internet trolls

Emma Roberts has suggested that people should provide their driver’s licence number when setting up a social media account to curb online hate.

Speaking to Variety magazine the Space Cadet actress said: “You get these comments that can be rude. So I try not to look at it because it’s just people want to hate.

“Everyone should have to put their driver’s licence number into their Instagram account, so you’d probably think twice before you said something rude if we had your driver’s license info.

“I feel like I’ve dealt with that since I was 12 years old, so I have a thick skin around it. But it just does bum me out. We’ve just cultivated now this hate culture towards celebrities and towards movies and television online. Where it used to be like five people reviewed a movie, and now it’s like you have people that won’t even say what their real name is saying how much they hate something.”

The Little Italy star explained she first experienced ageism when she was nine years old, when she lost out to Dakota Fanning for the lead role in I Am Sam. According to Roberts she was told: “You’re a little on the older side”

“To be told you’re on the older side at nine, I was like, ‘There’s my thick skin’. It grew right there.”

Emma Roberts stars in Space Cadet on Prime Video.