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 Martin KennyMartin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

For example, let us take a case where I put something up about Deputy Connolly suggesting she is involved in criminal activity. She could take a civil case against me, even though that content appeared on the Facebook platform. Deputy Connolly, in that hypothetical scenario, however, could not take a case against Facebook. Equally, it seems that Facebook would also not take a case against me for abusing the platform.

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