Online Safety Bill
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
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Wednesday, 1 March 2023
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Moved by
Lord Russell of Liverpool
23: Clause 11, page 10, line 9, at beginning inser...
My Lords, this large group of 33 amendments is concerned with preventing harm to children, by cre...
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Hear, hear!
My co-sponsors will deal with some of the more detailed elements of the 30 amendments that we are...
It is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Russell and to thank him for his good wishe...
My Lords, it is an honour, once again, to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, and the noble L...
My noble friend may have left one out.
I am afraid I may well have done.
That list shows your Lordships some of the challenges we ...
My Lords, I was not going to speak on this group, but I was provoked into offering some reflectio...
My Lords, I respond to the noble Lord in two ways. First, I ask him to reflect on how the parents...
Well, I must regard myself as doubly rebuked, and unfairly, because my reflections are very relev...
If my noble friend could, would he roll back the health and safety regulations for selling toys, ...
My Lords, if the internet were a toy, aimed at children and used only by children, those remarks ...
My Lords, I assure your Lordships that I rise to speak very briefly. I begin by reassuring my nob...
My Lords, I want, apart from anything else, to speak in defence of philosophical ruminations. The...
I want to answer the point that amendments cannot be seen in isolation. Noble Lords will remember...
My Lords, I support the amendments in this group that, with regard to safety by design, will addr...
My Lords, I support this group of amendments. Last week, I was lucky—that is not necessarily the ...
I too wish my noble friend Lady Kidron a happy birthday.
I will speak to Amendment 261. Hav...
My Lords, we have already had some very significant birthdays during the course of the Bill, and ...
My Lords, I too agree that this has been a really useful and interesting debate. It has featured ...
Does the noble Lord have any reflections, talking about Snap, as to how the internet has changed ...
I am grateful to the noble Lord. In many ways, I am reminded of the article I read in the New Yor...
Just to add to what the noble Lord has said, it is worth noting that we had a debate, on Amendmen...
I am grateful, as ever, to the noble Baroness, and I hope that has assisted the noble Lord, Lord ...
My Lords, I join in the chorus of good wishes to the bungee-jumping birthday Baroness, Lady Kidro...
My birthday is in October, so I hope not.
Very good—only one each, and hopefully fewer. I thank noble Lords for the points they raised in t...
Does the Minister accept that that is not exactly what we were saying? We were not saying that th...
It is part of the philosophical ruminations that we have had, but the point here is that eliminat...
I hope that the Minister has in his brief a response to the noble Baroness’s point about Clause 1...
I will come on to talk a bit about dissemination as well. If the noble Lord will allow me, he can...
I apologise for interrupting. Is that the case, and could that not be dealt with by defining harm...
Taking it out in the way that the amendment suggests throws up that risk. I am sure that it is no...
Can the Minister assure us that he will take another look at this between Committee and Report? H...
I do not think so, but I will certainly look at it again, and I am very happy to speak to the nob...
I understand the Minister’s response, and I accept that there is a parallel stream of work that m...
I cannot give a firm timescale today but I will seek what further information I can provide in wr...
Is this technically possible?
Technical possibility is a matter for the sector—
I am grateful to the noble Lord for engaging in dialogue while I am in a sedentary position, but ...
This is the trouble with looking at legislation that is technologically neutral and future-proofe...
My noble friend the Minister did not address the concern I set out that the Bill’s approach will ...
I do not think that it will. We have provided further resource for Ofcom to take on the work that...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. I think the entire Chamber will be thankful that...
Moved by
Lord Russell of Liverpool
25: Clause 11, page 10, line 13, at end insert—
My Lords, I am sorry that it is me again—a bit like a worn 78. In moving Amendment 25, I will spe...
My Lords, I rise on this group of amendments, particularly with reference to Amendments 25, 78, 1...
My Lords, I support these amendments. We are in the process of having a very important debate, bo...
My Lords, I have attached my name to Amendment 25 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Russell, an...
I appreciate what the noble Baroness is saying, but I made a slightly different point. I am sugge...
I thank the noble Lord for his clarification, although, speaking not as a lawyer, my understandin...
My Lords, we have a very full order of business to get through, so I encourage the noble Baroness...
I think that is on topic. If 16 and 17 year-olds are voting, they have a right to access internet...
My Lords, I welcome many of these amendments. I found reading them slightly more refreshing than ...
I want to challenge the noble Baroness’s assertion that the Bill is not about children’s rights. ...
The quip works, but political rights are not quips. Political rights have responsibilities, and s...
I am sorry, but I must point out that 16 and 17 year-olds in Scotland and Wales have the vote. Th...
And it has been highly contentious whether the right to vote gives them independence. For example...
My Lords, perhaps I may intervene briefly, because Scotland and Wales have already been mentioned...
My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Russell, to require regula...
My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group, and will make two very brief points. Before...
My Lords, I did not intend to speak in this debate but I have been inspired by it.
I was he...
We need to see the UNCRC included in the Bill. The convention is never opened up again, and how i...
So it is an interpretive document. The unintended consequences piece was around general comment N...
My Lords, I think this may have been a brief interlude of positivity. I am not entirely convinced...
My Lords, we too support the spirit of these amendments very much and pay tribute to the noble Lo...
My Lords, I will start in the optimistic spirit of the debate we have just had. There are many be...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for taking part in this discussion. I thank the noble Lord, Lor...
I entirely take that point. I was making the slightly wider point—not specifically with regard to...
I would simply make the point that it would probably be more accurate to say that the departments...
Moved by
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
27A: Clause 11, page 11, line 19, at end inser...
Moved by
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
29: Clause 11, page 11, line 25, at end inse...
My Lords, I am very happy to move Amendment 29 and to speak to Amendments 83 and 103, which are a...
My Lords, I wish to speak in support of Amendments 29, 83 and 103 in the name of the noble Barone...