Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
EU Digital Services Package and the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill: Discussion
Mr. Ciarán Shanley:
The Bill sets out a systemic regulatory framework. Through the online safety codes, online services will be obliged to take action on these categories of harmful online content. It is not suggestive. This can range from the commission identifying an issue with the availability of certain content and the platform having to take appropriate measures to deal with it or the commission setting down that the platforms have to take very specific measures and handle complaints in very specific ways. It can go from the commission obliging best efforts, to it saying a specific thing must be done in certain instances.
This allows for the development over time of different measures and changes.
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