Digital Services Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2024-02-08
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I know. I am not asking for a comprehensive response. I will signal for the record that it is a very worrying pattern.
I accept what the Minister of State said and outlined. I appreciate it and look forward to engaging further on the details of the process. I note that in the required report on complaints and flags received, and how many there are, which is outlined in the Bill, I am a little worried that in the reports we will get from platforms, we may not get the qualitative information around that same thing I just flagged to the Minister of State, namely, the issue of evasion. It may simply be reported that X number of reports were found to be valid or not valid, but if there is a pattern of a particular kind of report being made, which is systematically being effectively rejected by the platforms, there is a qualitative issue. That may be something to look at to ensure we look at how we get that issue across. That is the only thing. It is the qualitative piece.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-08