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

Colm Brophy: Will Mr. Ó Broin confirm to me that Facebook is about €40 billion of a revenue business operation?

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

Colm Brophy: It was not important enough to find out how much Facebook spends on taking-----

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

Colm Brophy: To be clear, I do not have a problem with businesses making profit. Absolutely not. I believe businesses should make a profit. I am a business person. I do not ever advocate the idea of wholescale censorship or that we should live in a restrictive world. The Internet does good things. My problem with Internet companies is that the harm cannot just be discarded. Each of our witnesses...

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

Colm Brophy: I ask our other guests to respond.

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

Colm Brophy: I appreciate that Internet services providers are in a slightly different position but I would like to hear from Twitter and Facebook.

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

Colm Brophy: I am sorry to interrupt and without meaning to be rude, I asked a very straightforward question. Does Twitter consider itself a publisher?

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

Colm Brophy: Twitter would not want to be considered a publisher under any circumstances.

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

Colm Brophy: That is what I do not understand because that is where Twitter blurs its own line every single time. The company makes editorial content judgments every time it makes one of these decisions in the same way that a newspaper or broadcast organisation makes editorial judgments when it transmits, yet it says it is not a publisher.

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

Colm Brophy: Those are editorial judgments.

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

Colm Brophy: That is very similar to what an editor of a newspaper would do. I ask the other witnesses to respond on that issue.

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

Colm Brophy: It is on the company's website.

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

Colm Brophy: Mr. Ó Broin accepts that Facebook makes editorial judgments by removing material but he does not consider that it publishes material.

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

Colm Brophy: To my mind the real distinction is that if Facebook were deemed to be a publisher, many people would be lining up to take legal action over certain content. By being deemed an intermediary, it escapes this consequence. This is why, in my opinion, this is like the wild west of the 21st century. There is a very interesting historical analogy. In the United States at the start of the...

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

Colm Brophy: I would love to respond but I respect my colleague's time so I will leave it for another occasion.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Act Employment Targets (8 Oct 2019)

Colm Brophy: 155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the results to date of the national disability inclusion strategy recommendation 4.49 to increase the public sector employment target of persons with disabilities from 3% to 6% by each Department. [40896/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Workplace Equipment Adaptation Grant (8 Oct 2019)

Colm Brophy: 473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received over the past five years and the number of grants awarded for the workplace adaptation grant; and the amount of funding given to the grant in the same period by county in tabular form. [40895/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Colm Brophy: I thank our guests for their contributions and for appearing before the committee. I have a general, observation-style question. I always defensively preface the following point by insisting I am not in favour of censorship, restriction or anything like that but I seek our guests' views on a matter. Further guests will come before the committee and I would also like to hear their views....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Colm Brophy: I would like to hear a range of views. It might be difficult for An Garda Síochána to comment on legislative matters but I would like to hear responses across the board.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Colm Brophy: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Colm Brophy: While I take on board the comments about the involvement of young people and working with them on all of the issues outlined in the responses, including through the innovative programmes that the Garda outlined, I am of the view that this comes down to a mindset change. The latter is something that we do not address often enough. Anyone can set up a successful business that sells drugs....