Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland

11:10 am

Mr. T. J. McIntyre:

The answer to that is yes. Not only is that the case, they are constantly under threat of and very often subjected to legal action. The moderators of boards.ie recently posted a picture of a whiteboard on which they had written "It is now five hours since we have received a threat of High Court action." It is the experience of forums such as boards.ie, politics.ie and others that threats are made on a regular basis. One can see from High Court records that cases are filed against Irish social networking sites on a regular basis.