Online harassment and harmful communications are significant social problems mirroring structural exclusions offline. This is a gendered problem: 23% of women across the EU have reported experiencing online abuse in their lifetime. At ICCL we recently carried out independent qualitative …
Statement on BAI’s proposals for internet regulation
Dublin, 24 June 2019 Protecting certain groups from harmful content should not translate into totalitarian state structures capable of indiscriminate surveillance and censorship of our private communications. At ICCL we are deeply alarmed by BAI’s proposals for internet regulation, including …
ICCL submission to the public consultation on regulation of online content
ICCL submitted a report on online content moderation to the Department of Communications on 15 April 2019. In it we assert that fundamental rights, including to privacy and to free expression, apply as much online as they do off. We …