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Education Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Lucas (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 6 July 2011. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Education Bill.
My Lords, perhaps I may pick up on what my noble friend said about private conversations not being included. I entirely understand that, but I do not understand where the Government think the border is in modern social media between private and public. Does he agree that Twitter is at all times public but that Facebook is a pretty difficult area? Kids these days communicate over Facebook in the way that we use e-mail. Communication between children talking about a particular allegation and saying, ““Has this happened to you?”” or ““Have you seen anything like that?”” will take place in an environment that might be considered public even though the kids will see it in the same way that we see e-mail. Will the noble Lord say which bits of the social media are public and which are private for the purposes of the Bill?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
729 c169GC 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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