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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Good. Where can we find that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Therefore, this is a global transparency report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Global information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: To be parochial, is it broken down in the context of Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What types of content are included for Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Can people access that report on Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How long is the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am not concerned about the navigation, I am interested in the content. What information will it give me on the types of harmful content on Twitter's platform? How frequent is it? What actions are taken to remove it? We need to know this in order that we can learn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: These would be requests from the Garda.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I may be wrong in this, but I understand from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties that Amnesty International requested Twitter to publish data on the abuse perpetrated on its platform and the company has failed to do that so far. Is that a wrong statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is that a wrong statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is the nature of the harm on any of the platforms? I am just focusing on Twitter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is the nature of the harm? What data is Twitter publishing on that harm? What is it learning so that it can prevent that harm? That is the type of report I would like to see in a transparent manner. Is Twitter doing that? Is Amnesty happy with Twitter in their collaborative talks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Does Amnesty believe Twitter is making great progress?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I have difficulty with all of that. I preface what I say by saying that freedom of expression is vital. We interfere with freedom of expression at our peril. Within that framework we need transparency; we do not need jargon. We need honest communication of information. I am not hearing that. I would not go away reassured that the self-regulation by any of the companies represented here...
- 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.