Kluivert, who has more than 750,000 followers on Instagram, says he hopes companies will introduce identity checks to make users accountable for their posts.
His comments follow a spate of racist incidents in Italy this season.
“People that do that (racist posts) have to, maybe, go to prison,” Kluivert told Sky Sports News, in a special report on racism in the Italian game. “It has to stop. It’s not on me, I’m not so smart to fix that!”
When asked whether identity checks were needed to remove the anonymity of some accounts, he replied: “Yes, something like that, because you can always see whose account it is or something. I hope so.”
Former Netherlands international Patrick Kluivert, his father, revealed he was racially abused by supporters during his spell in England.
Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku was subjected to monkey chants from the crowd during Inter Milan’s win over Cagliari on September 1.
A section of hardcover Inter ‘ultra’ fans, known as ‘Curva Nord’, have insisted the monkey chants aimed at Lukaku by rival supporters were not meant to be racist.
Inter Milan say they maintain their fight against racism “every day” but would not comment on the statement from fans.
“It’s very difficult for a football club to take on its ultras,” Tobias Jones, author of a new book titled ‘Ultra’, told Sky Sports News. “They’d be taking on a group that can shift five, ten thousand people.
“If you annoy them, by calling out certain behaviour, they can decide not to buy tickets.”
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