Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I want to start with Twitter. In recent days we have heard about the experience of a family, Ms Fiona Ryan and Mr. Jonathan Mathis, who felt they had to leave the country because of the content published about them on Twitter's platform. They received death threats and racist abuse and were subjected to shocking commentary online. They made complaints to An Garda. Can the witnesses respond to that? Do they feel Twitter's current standards dealt with their situation well?

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