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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?

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

Jack Chambers: In the past two weeks, Facebook filed a case in the US where it referred to itself as a publisher. Given that Facebook has used the term "publisher" as a defence in a court motion, surely we can engage with it on the fact that it may be a publisher of content in other contexts. Does Mr. Ó Broin accept that?

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

Jack Chambers: The motion, which was filed in court, stated, "neither Facebook nor any other publisher can be liable to publish someone else's message."

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

Jack Chambers: Is Facebook reconsidering its public position as to whether it is a publisher?

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

Jack Chambers: Facebook is stating, in motions it has filed in court, that it is a publisher.

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

Jack Chambers: The recent ruling in the European Court of Justice in the Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek case arguably provides a greater burden on companies. Do our guests agree with that ruling?

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

Jack Chambers: Freedom of expression is very important. Do our guests accept that, in all the documents from each of the companies before us today, there is a combined fudge? The documents refer back to the e-commerce directive, which it seems as if it is placed above everything else. The companies seem to allow an element of harmful content by using the e-commerce directive as a net defence, even though...

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

Jack Chambers: What about the user verification issue for the other companies?

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

Jack Chambers: Verification is different from anonymity. A user is verified prior to their name being public. Would Ms White accept that the verification process is slightly different from anonymity?

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

Jack Chambers: Yes. People can be verified and still avail of a platform, but be publicly anonymous.

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

Jack Chambers: I am implying that if somebody is subject to significant racist abuse and the Twitter platform allows that to happen and it has a huge impact on the person, whether they are anonymous or public Twitter cannot go back and provide another condition on freedom of expression where it says that not only is their freedom of expression important, but so is anonymity and even no verification.

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

Jack Chambers: Then Twitter says it is not responsible for it and has nothing to do with it as it is not a publisher but simply a platform that adheres to certain community standards. However, many people are affected in that car crash when they are subject to it.

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

Jack Chambers: Twitter would not support verification.

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

Jack Chambers: I mean a greater threshold of verification than Twitter has at present.

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

Jack Chambers: Twitter collects a great deal of data to sell to advertisers.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (8 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason for the lowering of the age limit for entry to cadetships from 28 to 26; the research and consideration undertaken prior to making the change; the decision making process he and his Department followed in agreeing to the proposal by the military authorities to bring the age down to 26; the consideration given to the talent pool of...