Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. T.J. McIntyre:
That is the stumbling block. We can certainly say there should be a civil mechanism whereby people who are the victims of content which would amount to a criminal offence, for example, content involving intimate images, should be able to go to a State body to have that content taken down if the individual provider does not do so. In fact, in the case of intimate images we already have that because the Data Protection Commission operates as that point of appeal. It is much harder to elaborate from that and say in respect of other kinds of content that we should have that remedy.
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