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

In a lot of their responses, our guests are referring to Twitter being an educator and are referring to general societal issues. The net response is to broaden the fudge, with respect, and that seems to be Twitter's public policy. The response to many of these issues is that they are complicated, multinational and difficult. Twitter maintains that it is a platform, not a publisher. When the argument is brought down to the family who was affected on the platform, the response from Twitter was to delete the tweet and that was it. Surely Twitter's enforcement mechanisms can be improved. Would our guests agree that the e-commerce directive and current legislative framework does not go far enough to mandate companies to protect citizens who are subject to that content?

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