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:

We do not allow them on the platform because there is no case to take. If criminal, dangerous or hate organisations start to have a presence on Facebook we will remove them immediately.

I do not mean this flippantly, but Deputy Martin Kenny referred to the KKK earlier. If it wanted to set up a benign page which had nothing whatever to do with hate speech, we would take that down as its ideology is contrary to our principles and policies. We would not allow the organisation itself to have a presence on the platform, nor would we allow any other user to engage in praise, support or representation of that organisation.

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