Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Challenges Facing the Broadcasting Sector as a Result of Covid-19: Discussion

Mr. John Purcell:

It is a while since I read it. We made a submission to this committee which reflects the bulk of them. The main direction of travel of our feeling on it is that there cannot be too much concentration put on the regulation of online media. The definition of harm may put it into most egregious extents of the harm. I think much of the harm of social media is in the gradual and small things.

Mr. Gibbons and I were speaking about it before. Ideally, I would like to see the same standards of fairness, accuracy, balance, good taste and so on that apply to traditional media applied to social media as well. I do not think the online safety and media regulation Bill does that but it is a start.

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