Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed)
Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
One of the difficulties is that all of the platforms, in particular Twitter, provide an abrupt form of conversation. It is short. One cannot get into the detail of an argument on Twitter. One just puts out a paragraph at most. From that point of view, it is difficult to see how counterspeech can work, given that all one ends up with is a whole lot of people shouting at one another. Ms White called it a "perception", but for most people it is the actual experience.
I understand the Chair wishes to get through this, but the other issue is-----
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