Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill

Photo of Fintan WarfieldFintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In her response to Senator Byrne, Ms Quill mentioned the individual complainant mechanism and the burden being placed on the commission rather than on social media companies. She also referred to super-complainants. I know that the online safety commission will establish a scheme to receive super-complaints. As with many things in this Bill, the big companies will assert that they are already ticking the boxes, so to speak. My concern would be that NGOs or organisations of that scale are not in a position do submit such complaints - it is not their job. The burden of responsibility should not be on an NGO to monitor a big social media giant. I am somewhat concerned about that burden of responsibility. I know that it is only just one scheme, but it is problematic on a few levels.

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