Mr. Ronan Costello:

I agree with Dr. Bertram, Mr. Ó Broin and the Deputy. The reason I emphasised the point on international precedent is because I agree that Ireland is uniquely placed at the moment. It is in a great position to set a benchmark for how the Internet is governed and regulated. It is a point of pride for the industry, and even for me to be talking about the issue. It is for that reason it is so important that Ireland seek to strike the balance that was talked about and to pursue objectivity, in both how it views how content should be moderated and how it views the industry. Whatever legislation is produced at the end of this process should work for companies of all sizes. Three companies are represented at this meeting but there are many thousands of others that have many different content moderation models that are not represented here, such as Reddit, Wikipedia and so on, which pursue community moderation. We are experimenting with that ourselves.

I echo the comments of the other contributors and agree regarding the points on objectivity and balance.