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:
The Deputy is right that there was a problem with the procedure. It might help to explain that the recording concerned would not be consistently on the platform for six years or highlighted on a daily basis. There might be one reviewer who would see it one day. The Deputy is right.
One of the options that we are considering as part of the wider consultation on whether we retain or modify the policy, and I am referring to the policy where, in narrow circumstances, we might leave up a video which is shared and a child is still at risk, and it is an option that we discussed with the Garda on Monday, is leaving the material up for a specified period, once it is known for sure that it is new material that has not been previously identified, and then the material would come down either way after a certain period. That is one of the options we are considering. The other option-----
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