Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion
12:00 pm
Ms Niamh Sweeney:
I might address the last question first and work backwards because if I do it the other way, we will lose out. On the training manuals, in April this year for the first time we published our comprehensive policies. Prior to April of this year we had always published our community standards. There was an external-facing version and a much more complex set of internal standards that dealt with the specifics of various situations operating on a very fine line between what violates and what does not. Due to calls from many of our safety partner organisations for greater transparency - I talked about this in the opening statement - we published the full guidelines in April of this year. A considerable amount of very detailed information is available now. In a couple of very rare exceptions we do not give where the exact line is because it just tells people who want to game the situation how to do it. However, for the most part everything we have is online.
Deputy Dooley asked about perceived reticence. Certainly there is no perceived reticence. What I said - I was actually quoting the Law Reform Commission-----
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