Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook

10:10 am

Photo of Noel HarringtonNoel Harrington (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The legislation on electronic telephony and texting mentions harassment and offence. If one seeks to be offended online, one can be offended very easily. I presume that trying to deal with harassment and offence when there are 200 million users and 1 billion tweets every 2.5 days is unworkable.

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