Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner

Dr. John Evans:

We had some experience of this in the autumn before we had our powers and the first step was to engage immediately with the platforms. Because we had been laying some groundwork, we immediately knew people at the platforms to call in and we had them in with us the following day, and we had the European Commission there as well.

Now that we have passed 17 February and we have our powers, where that might translate is, for example, where somebody had notified content to the platform that was not taken down and the platform in some sense, in the process that it was following, breached the DSA.

Another one goes back to this systemic issue. It is not an overnight fix but it still leads to significant sanctions, potentially, down the road, where a platform's mitigation measures have been found not to be sufficiently robust to combat that kind of issue coming. There, it is probably threat to public discourse and even political process.

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