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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is monitored by Twitter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: However, they do not have a role in the ongoing monitoring of harmful-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Does Google have an ethics board or an oversight board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Amnesty has made some findings about Twitter's non-publishing of data. I ask for clarification. Having the maximum data available and transparency is in all our interests to help us to formulate policy and legislation. We asked the same questions last week over data collection by the Garda. What data about harmful content has Twitter published? Where can we find it? What can we learn...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Perhaps we will judge that and Ms White can tell us. Is Amnesty wrong in claiming that Twitter has not published the data? Has it changed? Has Twitter published or not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Good. Where can we find that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Therefore, this is a global transparency report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Global information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: To be parochial, is it broken down in the context of Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What types of content are included for Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Can people access that report on Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How long is the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am not concerned about the navigation, I am interested in the content. What information will it give me on the types of harmful content on Twitter's platform? How frequent is it? What actions are taken to remove it? We need to know this in order that we can learn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: These would be requests from the Garda.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I may be wrong in this, but I understand from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties that Amnesty International requested Twitter to publish data on the abuse perpetrated on its platform and the company has failed to do that so far. Is that a wrong statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is that a wrong statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is the nature of the harm on any of the platforms? I am just focusing on Twitter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is the nature of the harm? What data is Twitter publishing on that harm? What is it learning so that it can prevent that harm? That is the type of report I would like to see in a transparent manner. Is Twitter doing that? Is Amnesty happy with Twitter in their collaborative talks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Does Amnesty believe Twitter is making great progress?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I have difficulty with all of that. I preface what I say by saying that freedom of expression is vital. We interfere with freedom of expression at our peril. Within that framework we need transparency; we do not need jargon. We need honest communication of information. I am not hearing that. I would not go away reassured that the self-regulation by any of the companies represented here...