Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Session 4: International Collaboration
Mr. Rogier Huizenga:
France has recently developed a law to tackle hate speech and harmful content. The law adopted in Germany is another example so there are a number of examples. The challenge is that these examples differ from each other so how do we compare them? This is also where we see real merit in having these kind of discussions among parliamentarians possibly first as a start, as is happening here, for more like-minded situations but also extending it to a slightly wider audience. I certainly think that the countries from which the participants today come are already tackling this. I am not saying they are producing the best of results but they are already to the forefront of dealing with this.
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