Ms Amelia Evans:

These online threats are real. We are speaking about it in the context of conflict but more generally I want to speak about the threats and trends of national repression that we are documenting so that Senator Byrne is aware that they exist. A lot has already been discussed with regard to trolling and threats to privacy. There are also ways in which these can be taken from the offline to the online and the relationship between the two. With regard to specific concrete steps, we have not yet seen the media freedom council take this issue more seriously and we would like to see this. It could be an opportunity for Ireland to raise this, document it and explore the ways in which there can be good practice in codes of conduct. There is also the perennial question of stronger engagement with the tech companies and pushing beyond a code of conduct into regulatory measures.