Ms Bailey, whose political career crashed over her insurance claim against a hotel, said online abuse is “exceptionally stressful and isolating”. Her experience has convinced her to support the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill, which is making its way through the Oireachtas. It provides for an online safety commissioner as part of a wider Media Commission to oversee online safety. That social media played a part in that change is obvious but so too is the fact that we need something far more profound than a set of rules to curb online dishonesty. We need to restore, and then defend, the idea of honesty as a defining security in how we do business.

Source: Irish Examiner May 08, 2021 08:27 UTC