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- 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?
- 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?