Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Session 4: International Collaboration
Mr. David Cicilline:
During the community's last meeting, Peter Kent noted that dominant platforms may simply pull out of jurisdictions in the absence of harmonised regulations across our democracies. We are seeing this in real time with Google's threats to withdraw its Google news service in response to the European Union's copyright directive and its more recent decision to stop displaying news previews of articles in France to avoid complying with this law. What recommendations, if any, does Mr. Huizenga have for harmonising regulations internationally to avoid this kind of dynamic?
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