Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:
It is about having the platform signed up to the guidelines. All very large online platforms have no option. They are bound by the obligation to do risk assessments and to mitigate those risks, the guidelines about how they should mitigate the risks that apply to them, and the monitoring of whether they followed the guidelines and the consequences if they do not apply to them. They do not volunteer for this, it is the law. Obviously that is for the European Commission if it comes to enforcement.
On compliance notices, again that is very new piece of legislation for us so I cannot yet answer the question about exactly what our internal process would be on the timeframes on that.
The last question was to do with censoring a Member of European Parliament. I would say that it does not really matter what people's views are, we are not there to censor them.
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