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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that it is a very fast-changing area. I appreciate the fact that Twitter is before us and I hope its representatives will come back again because we need to work together. However, I would have been more impressed if they had stated that the e-commerce directive was greatly outdated. It is the law at the moment and we are complying with it but, within that law, we are passive...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is required in legislation is between minimal and non-existent, so it is not really a positive to state that Facebook is doing more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What about Google?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I was not referring to Mr. Meade personally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: As we try to balance the challenge with freedom of expression, which is crucial, it would help if providers were coming forward to identify the problems, their extent and their context but they are not doing that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I wish to focus on the moderators for a few minutes. I do not know what they are called now but I refer to the people who have to look at the terrible images to which we referred. Can we drop the phrase "revenge porn"? It is not acceptable to me. It is used in one of the documents we have seen today. It is not I but other organisations which have drawn attention to it, and asked for it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Are they directly employed by Facebook?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The latter are outsourced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is the breakdown?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Can Mr. Ó Broin send the details into the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Are the outsourced staff and direct employees paid the same rates?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I know Facebook is a for-profit company but Mr. Ó Broin's answer is difficult for me. One of the most important ingredients of this is the person who had to watch these things and make decisions. Facebook, however, is outsourcing the function and paying people less. Mr. Ó Broin is doing all sorts of things with lovely language.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I read that but how can the company monitor that if half of these people are outsourced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I have a close relationship with my husband but that does not mean I know everything. I sit on another committee and organisations which come before us have an obligation to give us information, just as we have an obligation to put them under pressure. However, the three companies here today are for-profit organisations. Can Mr. Ó Broin give me the information on how many people are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Some of these have the same roles and others do not. We do not know how the outsourced staff deal with this terrible stuff. Does Facebook have a mechanism whereby they can report back and maybe suggest different ways of doing things?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is the situation with Twitter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They are all employees of Twitter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Twitter does not outsource.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: So they are not employees of Twitter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Can we have the breakdown?