Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 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)
Mr. Ronan Costello:
To build on the Deputy's analogy, we do the same thing. A person's identity on Twitter has no bearing on the accountability that they have when we enforce our rules. If someone is engaging in abuse, they will be bounced from the platform and the content they have posted will be removed because it is a violation of our rules that they behaved in that way in the first place, regardless of the identity under which they did it. To use Dr. Bertram's phrase, there is anonymity and there is accountability, and one is not a shield to the other.
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