Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion

Professor Joe Carthy:

They will probably argue that they are multinational companies, must abide by laws in different jurisdictions and that it is not possible to tailor their systems to one small country with 4 or 5 million people when they have 300 million people across the world. They would argue that if they were to do this for every country, it would not be possible for them to do so. That would be the most logical defence if I was sitting in their place.

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