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Ciarán Cudahy

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504 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The moderation, though, you know, the posts get past the moderation all of the time.

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You know what I mean?

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There's a playing catch-up element to it.

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There'll always be that element.

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Sorry, I'm not having a go.

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I just... I can think of so many... My brain has been flooded with just so many examples of how people being anonymous online has been harmful.

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And I just find it interesting your suggestion is we all should be anonymous online.

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But would you trust those companies to comply with regulations?

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One of these companies, Meta are the one who were found to be addictive by design.

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There was also a leak or whistleblower provided all of this content to the Wall Street Journal a couple of years ago.

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And then it was an internal slide deck from Meta that acknowledged one in three girls with body issue images feel worse about themselves when they use our platform.

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And they know that about themselves.

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And they keep doing it.

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They keep pushing the platform on those girls.

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And yet the solution is to ask them to comply with regulations.

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The same people who Norma Foley asked to meet them as Minister for Education to discuss childhood safety basically told her to get lost.

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They were too busy.

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That's a suggestion we haven't heard.