Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 33 provides for consequential amendments to the Broadcasting and Other Media Regulation Acts 2009 and 2022 arising from the new offences introduced under this Act. It follows the pattern in those Acts of scheduling matters that might be subject to regulation of online media and covers the new offences provided in this Bill related to stalking, harassment and non-fatal strangulation. It also covers the new anonymity provisions in relation to the harassment and stalking offences, and indeed the breaches of civil orders. The effect of this provision will be to allow the Online Safety Commissioner, working under Coimisiún na Mean, to develop online safety codes which require certain online platforms to minimise, at a systemic level, the availability of online content by which a person commits any of the offences that are covered. These codes may also set out standards that an online platform must follow in relation to user complaints relating to this type of conduct.

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