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 Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to focus on the moderators for a few minutes. I do not know what they are called now but I refer to the people who have to look at the terrible images to which we referred. Can we drop the phrase "revenge porn"? It is not acceptable to me. It is used in one of the documents we have seen today. It is not I but other organisations which have drawn attention to it, and asked for it not to be used. They are sexually explicit images of abuse, not porn revenge. I would not like to be the person who had to look at these images. Can Facebook, Google and Twitter tell me if the people in question are part of their entities? Are they outsourced? What do the companies learn from them? Have they listened to them? What is the mechanism for them to report back on terrible images they have seen? I ask our guests to be precise because the Chairman will stop me in two minutes.

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