Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán on the 2023 Work Programme
Dr. John Evans:
The very large platforms, including Twitter, are already subject to the full force of the Digital Services Act. Other intermediaries will be subject to the Act come 17 February next year. As the Senator will be aware, there are many provisions in that Act. A straightforward one to explain is that there will be a right for users and, as I said earlier, trusted flaggers to make platforms aware of illegal content and there are processes behind that to ensure it happens in a particular way.
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