Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2022-04-26
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I am open to that. There is content relating to the promotion of messages about climate and the environment and there are the mechanics of how emissions are produced. Some measures and policies are less wasteful in comparison with others. A thousand choices are made about online service providers. Do they refresh every nanosecond or every millisecond? There are many choices about the training of algorithms and systems to provide recommendations.
There are many choices and options there. Again, we want to ensure that the commission is empowered, through its media service codes, to promote the best choices and options on that. I am happy to engage with the Minister. I am a little concerned that section 7 might adhere more towards the content side, whether harmful or positive, whereas it is more the practices and the service codes that I am keen to go after. However, I am happy to discuss in between.

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Sitting date: 2022-04-26