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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: I wish to ask about illegal content. Will Dr. Evans define how the commission decides what is illegal and what is not illegal? How does the commission come to the conclusion on whether something is illegal or harmful?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Where does the commission stand regarding the role of trusted flaggers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: What is the situation with appointing those roles at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: When will the commission be in a position to appoint the first trusted flaggers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: One of the areas we have been looking at here with interest is the whole emerging area of artificial intelligence. It is developing at a very fast pace, as the witnesses will be aware, so much so that some experts are saying it is very hard to regulate and to keep up with it because it is changing so fast. We could contend there is a possibility they could also create illegal and harmful...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Reference was made to the EU Commission having designated 22 VLOPs and the large online search engines. Of these, 13 can be found in Ireland. They must have 55 million or more monthly active EU users to qualify. That seems to be a quite high bar in some ways. Are there many others that are below that? Are there some who are disputing that 55 million active EU users to qualify? Is there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: In the presentation, it was stated that it is not Coimisiún na Meán's role to act as an online censor or tell people what they can or cannot say. If somebody goes online or on one of the platforms and advocates killing people and so on, how does one square that statement with threats of violence and so forth?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: In the statement, Coimisiún na Meán stated it does not tell people what they cannot or cannot say. That needs to be qualified by what Dr. Evans just said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: It just jumped out at me because of what Deputy O'Reilly spoke about - the free speech issue. There are grey areas there too. How far does free speech go?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Will the witnesses comment on the out-of-court dispute settlement body? Where is that at and how is it working?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Coimisiún na Meán has a dedicated contact centre. How does that work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: What is the nature of the complaints at this stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: If it is deemed that this content needs to be taken down or removed, how does that work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: It seems to be quite a long process. In all that time, that content can still potentially be online. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Is it relatively easy to contact all of these platforms? As a layperson, a member of the public, is it relatively easy to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: I thank Coimisiún na Meán. How does someone find its dedicated content centre online? Where is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: What is CNAM? What is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: I was looking for it here and it was not jumping up for me easily.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Between the trusted flaggers and dedicated contact centre, it seems a lot of Coimisiún na Meán's activity will be driven by complaints from the trusted flaggers or the public who go through the contact centre. On top of that, has Coimisiún na Meán itself an oversight role to investigate or keep an eye on what is going on out there, and rather than waiting for a complaint...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: I thank Dr. Evans and Mr. Kenny.