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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The key words are "trust" and "safety". I do not want to personalise this. That is a process and it is in place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The trust and safety council was mentioned when Twitter was before the committee. Of course, it is only as good as its operation on the ground. We have a letter from members stating that, in the past nine months, Twitter's engagement really has not been as good. In fact, the members of the council seem to be begging for a phone call with the chief executive officer. Perhaps "begging" is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine. I will leave the details for a moment and ask if the trust safety council is working effectively.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I am not taking issue with SpunOut.iein any way. I have read the submission and I am just trying to get behind the processes and how effective they are.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Those initiatives are very often used by such companies to say, "We are engaging and we are doing our best".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is my little difficulty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Would there be minutes of meetings of the trust and safety council? I am focusing on this matter because it stood out when the representatives from Twitter spoke about it. Are there regular meetings? Are minutes taken and published? Do issues emerge that we could all look at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Does it happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: SpunOut.ie does great work and I only hear praise on the ground and I am just exploring issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Legislation is only one part of this, there are other mechanisms. It seems to be that, if the companies were more forthcoming with the information, we might try a different route. Do companies pay SpunOut.ie?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Do companies make contributions to SpunOut.ie?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is a giant process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I have read that. That project is funded specifically.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Do the companies pay, or make contributions, to SpunOut.ieor other, similar organisations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Do they pay or make contributions for anything? I thought Mr. Power said in his opening statement that SpunOut.iereceives support from Facebook.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Support is received from Facebook through specific projects.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is it the same for the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I heard all of that. The funding from Facebook was a new departure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It was a new departure for the centre. Prior to that, the centre had not received funding from Facebook or any other organisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is the centre involved in policy, at any level, with any of these platforms?