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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (10 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 95. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which he is incorporating demographic changes into budgetary planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41304/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve (10 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 1 October 2019, the reason the terms of paragraph 31(1) of Defence Forces Regulation R5 have not been utilised to promote RDF officers commissioned after 1 October 2005 to the rank of captain or the Naval Service equivalent or above; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41400/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I want to start with Twitter. In recent days we have heard about the experience of a family, Ms Fiona Ryan and Mr. Jonathan Mathis, who felt they had to leave the country because of the content published about them on Twitter's platform. They received death threats and racist abuse and were subjected to shocking commentary online. They made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: What does Twitter do then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: If someone tweets something that is evidently racist and results in a family questioning its habitation in, or having to leave, a country, is deleting that particular tweet sufficient enforcement? Should there not be a greater consequence for the person who publishes that tweet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: Does Twitter think that is sufficient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: Does Ms White not agree that, from the point of view someone who has been made subject to hateful content and the consequences of it, a simple deletion of the offending tweet is a really weak enforcement consequence for the person who has brought such hatred to other people's lives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: With respect, Twitter promotes that content to a considerable audience. Would Ms White agree that Twitter is one of the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: If someone with a considerable number of followers brings hatred or information to a big audience, that promotes a racist message to a large audience. Does the simple deletion of the offending tweet rectify and remedy the consequence for a person who feels he or she has to leave the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: That is kind of a mob response. That promotes a kind of mob response. Is that Twitter's policy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: That is not helpful to mature debate. Trying to create two binary and extreme sides responding to each other hardly promotes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: In a lot of their responses, our guests are referring to Twitter being an educator and are referring to general societal issues. The net response is to broaden the fudge, with respect, and that seems to be Twitter's public policy. The response to many of these issues is that they are complicated, multinational and difficult. Twitter maintains that it is a platform, not a publisher. When...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: Was that family worth the counter-speech Ms White is advocating? Was the counter-speech online and in the media worth it? There has been a lot of solidarity in the media and among the public, but should they have had to go through that experience and rely on the kind of counter-speech Ms White refers to? I would argue that Twitter should have stopped it before we had to have this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: That is what Ms White is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: Everything is broad in a fudge. Ms White raised counter-speech when I raised this family's case, so clearly she is using that as a defence on this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: Twitter deleted a tweet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: Of course we need to challenge them, but I am sure that family would disagree that they have to be the centre of that challenge. I would like to broaden the discussion. Last week witnesses mentioned account verification as a key issue for all of the platforms represented here. Of course freedom of expression is extremely important, but does anonymity on these platforms allow for a lot of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: Would Facebook support a statutory obligation with regard to user verification?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: It would mean that the user base would be more reflective of the population, rather than how it is currently skewed, which Mr. Ó Broin mentioned. A total of 2.2 billion, or one third of the world's population, have created an account, which means a large number of users remain in Facebook's system, as I am sure Mr. Ó Broin will accept.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: I read that Facebook recently filed a court motion in the US in which it referred to itself as a publisher. The motion stated, "neither Facebook nor any other publisher can be liable to publish someone else's message." Has Facebook changed its stance on whether it is a publisher?