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 Claire Rush:

This is a good example of where there is a threshold of illegal, and there is no question about that. We all agree and know what type of content is illegal. We have experiences, however, of seeing different types of content being shared and uploaded on our services and platforms, some of which is equally harmful and has no place on our platforms. I am referring, for example, to an area such as the non-consensual sharing of intimate imagery. Even if that an image was initially taken with consent, that is not allowed to be shared or posted on our platform subsequently without the consent of the person originally involved. That is not allowed on our platforms. We would take such an image down and also bank it to prevent it from being uploaded again. Some of the content referred to earlier, such as implied sexual, or sexually suggestive content, involving minors, would also breach our policies and we would also take that down.

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