Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is a very interesting court case at the moment in the United States. We are inclined to say of some of the large companies that they have an algorithm and that they do this for a profit motivation or for a reason. In actual fact, however, some of the large companies removed Donald Trump from their platforms in the aftermath of what happened in Washington. A supreme court case being taken by a group on the basis that one should not be able to remove people from a platform, no matter what they say, which shows that difference. The court has heard opening arguments and has not decided yet but, fundamentally, that court case will have an impact not just on the United States but globally as to how people are perceived in this.