Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Session 2: Industry Perspective

Mr. Marco Pancini:

If I can correct the statement, the point is that Google as a search engine is indexing content and providing a link to content that is not hosted on Google. The same content on YouTube can be taken down because we host the content. The content that we link from Google, since it is not hosted on our networks, cannot be taken down by us. What we can take action on is the link. We can make sure that when somebody is searching something on Google, he or she cannot find the link that is leading to the illegal content. For illegal content that is hosted elsewhere, we do not have any technical possibility to take action. Of course we can work together with law enforcement and the technical community to solve the problem.

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