Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Social Media: Discussion
11:10 am
Seán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour) | Oireachtas source
Does the office have people with expertise, or people attached to it, who can trace the source of a tweet which may be inappropriate or may be pornographic? Does it have somebody who can trace the source of tweets, because that was the difficulty we came up against when we had other hearings? I think we met a barrister from the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and others and they said the Department of Justice and Equality had a section dealing with Internet security. I accept the office is dealing with safety, and I have the greatest respect for everything it does, but the issue we came up against before was a specialised type of expertise in the Department which could trace the source of a tweet which may-----
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