Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2022-05-31
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I will withdraw the amendment and come back to it. My point is not with regard to it not being covered. My concern is that there might be a danger of it being interpreted as referring to looking at an image of something happening. I want to be clear this provision is not to do with the content. It is not that a video of somebody applying force is wrong. It is limited to the video itself applying force to a viewer. Does the Minister know what I mean? It is not the content internal to the video. The concern raised with me was whether there would be a risk that there would be an interpretation of applying force to somebody's body if there is content that shows force being applied to a person. Is there a danger of this inadvertently getting caught under this umbrella? This is meant to be about the effect of the video itself on the viewer. I am asking whether the Minister is confident there is no risk of this overinterpretation.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-31