Digital Services Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2024-02-08
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Dara Calleary (FF), Mayo

Again, this is the DSA and this puts the DSR into effect. We were able to use the provisions of the digital services regulation on the night of the Dublin riots to alert online providers to stuff that appeared on their platforms encouraging people to come and destroy people's property and potentially people's lives. That is of huge benefit and if it can be used in terms of public security and public protection in that manner in the way that it was used it shows the very positive potential of the Bill in this regard. I am very conscious of Senator Keogan's concerns and I have tried to show there are a lot of safeguards in place that reflect those.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-08