Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Session 3: The State of Play in Regulation

Ms Keit Pentus-Rosimannus:

I thank the Chairman for all the introductions. The urgent need to forbid Facebook from accepting political advertisements has been mentioned. It has been suggested that there is a need for regulation in this area. I wonder how it is envisaged that it would be possible to make such a distinction. If we say that political advertisements are not allowed on Facebook, should we proceed to say the same in respect of television and newspapers? How can this distinction be made? As lawmakers, how can we forbid political advertisements in one case by regulating, as opposed to their own self-regulation?

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