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. Ryan Meade:

Google has a range of products with different policies. Regarding YouTube, which is our primary content-hosting platform, we do not allow pornographic material of that nature. It would be in violation of our terms. On non-consensual sharing of explicit imagery, that would fall into a narrow category of material that we would delist from search results. Our Google search engine is an expansive index of the web and we do not apply our content policies to what is on the web more generally. If the material, however, can identify a person or is personal information that has been shared without consent, we would delist that content from being searchable.

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