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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has criticised aspects of proposed new online safety legislation. The Commission says the current approach in the draft Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill to defining harmful online content is vague and open-ended, and lacks legal certainty . It also says it is concerned that the role and functions of the new Online Safety Commissioner lacks detail in the planned new law. The comments were made in the Commission s submission to the Oireachtas Committee on Media, which is considering the general scheme of the bill. This draft law is seeking to tackle some of the most important challenges facing our society; from the moderation of online content by big tech to children s online safety, and broader issues of online harassment and tackling online hate, said Sinéad Gibney, IHREC Chief Commissioner. ....
Online safety regulations must be prioritised – Higgins 15th March 2021 - Emer Higgins, TD The establishment of online safety regulations must be treated as a matter of urgency for Ireland despite warnings from social media giants, a Fine Gael TD has said.
Deputy Emer Higgins, Fine Gael Spokesperson on Social Media, has said Ireland must prioritise its own legislation around online safety and media regulation following Facebook’s assertion that Ireland should pause work on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill until similar EU laws are finalised.
Deputy Higgins said: “We are a global hub for many social media and tech companies, so it’s important that Ireland prioritises our own legislation that will protect users and develop a streamlined national approach for regulating online safety. ....
Facebook says that Ireland should reconsider introducing an upcoming national online safety law because it is likely to clash with binding EU law currently being passed. In a submission to an Oireachtas Committee, Facebook’s policy directors say there are 17 different areas in which the Online Safety and Media Regulation (OSMR) Bill might fall foul of the upcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) from the EU. “Given the significant overlap in both timing and scope between the [Irish online safety bill] and the DSA, serious consideration should be given by the Government to pausing progress on the [bill] and waiting until the DSA is adopted to avoid unnecessary duplication of work and ensure that consistency between the two regimes can be achieved,” said Facebook’s head of public policy for Facebook, Dualta O’Broin. ....
Slow adoption of law could delay Irish online safety commissioner until 2024 Independent.ie 11/03/2021 Adrian Weckler Ireland’s online safety commissioner will not fully be in place until 2024, social media networks believe. The delay could infuriate other EU countries, who are already angry at Ireland for what they see as being too lax in its approach to regulating Irish-based tech giants. In a formal submission to the Oireachtas Committee on Media’s consultation on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill (OSMR), Facebook says it does not expect the State to have the watchdog up and running for three years. This is because of the slow passage of the bill through the Oireachtas and work yet to be done in selecting the Commission and defining the scope of its powers. ....
This is because of the slow passage of the bill through the Oireachtas and work yet to be done in selecting the Commission and defining the scope of its powers. Facebook, which has its European headquarters in Dublin for Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, is suggesting that some of the Safety Commissioner’s powers be temporarily assigned to another body, such as the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, to speed up the regulatory approach. Sources in Google, which is also based in Dublin, and which also will be subject to the new regulator, say they also see a lengthy “gap” in setting up the new body. ....