Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Ronan Costello:

Another function that the platform performs is a feature of the fact that it is a public platform. Not to reference any particular case, but when someone tweets something that the majority of Twitter users, be it in Ireland or in other countries, find distasteful or offensive, a number of tweets will reject the premise and content of that original tweet and thereby create a majority which outnumbers those who agreed with the original tweet.

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