Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code is as much about what it doesn’t do as what it does
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code is as much about what it doesn’t do as what it does’s online safety commissioner, Niamh Hodnett, the regulator with ambition to place some semblance of moral obligation and compliance on the internet‘s notorious free-for-all.That much of the now-finalised online safety code is about protecting children in a world that exposes them to harm on an almost routine basis lends the code a better-late-than-never dimension.
Coimisiún na Meán has been careful to outline what the code doesn’t do. This includes anything at all to tackle the urgent problem of toxic algorithms – “recommender systems” that can send vulnerable people, such as those with eating disorders, down damaging online rabbit-holes. The regulator doesn’t mandate specific age assurance or age verification methods for use in situations where those new obligations apply, though it has suggested various techniques, including two dubious ones: the uploading of documentary evidence and/or live selfies, in the hope that this will limit child access to pornography and “gratuitous violence” online.
Coimisiún na Meán is not a content moderator, nor an appeals body for moderation decisions made by platforms. But it can accept complaints about their systems and processes. It will track particular issues and it will not be afraid to sanction, it says.
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