Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the various types of harmful communications, everyone agrees that child pornography is a criminal offence and needs to be taken down from the Internet. Obviously,the children in the images are victims of sexual abuse and other children should not be exposed to looking at it. That is clear. However, there are other forms of harmful communication such as bullying. Is Dr. Aiken suggesting online bullying be made a criminal offence or, rather, that there be an outside regulator with the power to take down posts in which there is online bullying or direct social media companies to remove it?

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