Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 May 2021
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Fiona Jennings:
We are now looking at specific platforms for children. A few years ago, we were talking about a specific internet for children. As somebody mentioned earlier, our concern would be the people who may be hanging out on these platforms and how they could be open to abuse. I do not know much more about Facebook's proposals for Instagram for kids. We already have YouTube Kids and perhaps it is following in the same vein as that. For all the reasons that have been discussed, we certainly would be concerned about something that is specifically aimed at children. We would be looking at it from the protection side of it and what the implications would be.
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