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View Marie-Hélène Gaudreau Profile
BQ (QC)
You are speaking to me as a businessman, but if your child's life was over because everyone had seen content—
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for coming today.
Mr. Antoon, I want to follow up on my colleague, Mr. Erskine-Smith, to clarify how you deal with criminal content. You say you have no record of Serena Fleites, who was a 13-year-old girl trying to get content taken down from your site. She says she tried to pretend she was her mother because she didn't want her family to know, and that your organization insisted she provide photographs and evidence of who she was.
Don't you have that?
Feras Antoon
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Feras Antoon
2021-02-05 13:32
Again, with the limited information we have.... It is very surprising for me that she had to act like somebody else. Our procedure is exactly the same—
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
Okay, but you should have it on record.
This is the thing. Either you're suggesting Ms. Fleites lied...and I would say that would be a really dangerous thing to do because, in 17 years of hearing testimony, I found her to be a very strong witness. I would assume it would be fairly straightforward in your records...because we're talking about criminal activity.
I'll ask you this. Under your legal obligations in Canada, a company that becomes aware of content that is hosted on its servers must report that to the police. Do you have a record of reporting anything from that time to the police about a 13-year-old girl who said her images were being used on your site? You would have a police record, wouldn't you?
David Tassillo
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David Tassillo
2021-02-05 13:33
I just wanted to answer, as I had a little more information about this. That's all.
David Tassillo
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David Tassillo
2021-02-05 13:33
I can take a step back and explain it. There's an insinuation that the information isn't available. The information.... We might have records of this. We have never said that she's lying. We just don't know. What Feras was trying to explain is that with the limited information, a first name and a last name, she might have—
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
No, because I don't have much time here. It's a question of whether or not you reported it to the police, because those are your legal obligations.
Let's talk about 14-year-old Rose Kalemba, who was kidnapped and tortured and raped. Her video was on your site, and she begged you to take it down. Do you have a record of Rose Kalemba begging you over a six-month period, trying to get the rape and torture video of her taken down off your site?
David Tassillo
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David Tassillo
2021-02-05 13:36
If she sent any email it will be.... Well, we do have an email retention time, but if there is a record.... We have basically knowledge of the video, when it was live and when it was disabled, so we could go backwards and reconstitute the time from when the video was up to when the video was taken down and we do keep all the take-down notices, so we could reconstruct that. That's what I was trying to reference the—
View Charlie Angus Profile
NDP (ON)
Okay. My issue here is that we're not interested in adult pornography, in what adults do in a room. That's not the purview of the committee. The committee's job is whether or not big tech is respecting its legal obligations. Ms. Fleites has a statement that she begged you to take it down. There should be a record that this was reported to the police, because you're legally obligated.
Now, in the case of Rose Kalemba and her torture, the videos were listed as “teen crying and getting slapped around”, “teen getting destroyed” and “passed out teen”. Your moderators viewed this. You told us that every video was viewed, so you viewed this. Wouldn't you think that someone in your organization would have said that a video of the torture of a 14-year-old girl would be in contravention of subsection 163.1(3) of the child pornography law, which means that it's a 14-year crime. Why did it take six months to get it down, and do you have a record of having dealt with this woman? Why was it kept up there when you know this is a criminal activity?
David Tassillo
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David Tassillo
2021-02-05 13:36
If there was a time when the content was up there, it would be taken down as soon as we were made aware that it was against our terms of service. For this specific incident, I'd have to go back and verify the exact timeline. I don't have it.
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