Wednesday saw the unveiling of the Online Safety Monitor 2025 by the Children’s Rights Alliance. The document, which can be read in full here, sets out a stated goal to monitor online harms, as well as progress made by the Irish State and the tech industry in better safeguarding children and young people’s rights in digital environments.
But reporting around the document has been uncritical, bordering on rose-tinted – with various reports from today backing the line that the Government should pass online protections to shut out predators. However, the new online safety monitor is not just about cracking down on the evil of child sex abuse material, as the headlines would have us believe. It also calls for “increased oversight” to ensure that social media platforms adhere to the EU’s Digital Services Act, and urges Government reform.
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