Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Karen White:

That is the enforcement action that we can take currently. Progress in this area, relating to the type of behaviour the Deputy is talking about, is incredibly tough. There is a wider, societal issue that needs to be addressed here. Simply removing the content from a service is not necessarily, in all instances, going to change the intolerance we see online.

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