Online Safety Bill

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, for his words—I thought I was experiencing time tr...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 44 and 158 in the name of the right reverend Prelate the Bis...

My Lords, this group of amendments looks at the treatment of legal content accessed by adults. Th...

My Lords, it has been interesting to hear so many noble Lords singing from the same hymn sheet—es...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords from all sides of the House for their contributions and for shining...

I am very grateful to the noble Lords who have spoken on the amendments in this group, both this ...

I hope the Minister will forgive me for interrupting, but would it not be much easier for Ofcom t...

I will come on to say a bit more about how Ofcom goes about that work.

The Bill will ensure...

On that, in an earlier reply the Minister explained that platforms already remove harmful content...

The noble Baroness’s point gets to the heart of the debate that we have had. I talked earlier abo...

My Lords, my noble friend has explained clearly how terms of service would normally work, which i...

Our right honourable friend’s content was reuploaded. This makes the point that the problem at th...

My Lords, in his opening remarks, the Minister referred to the fact that this debate began last T...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Cotes

34: Clause 12, page 12, line 9, leave out “if they ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak to this group of amendments. As it is the first time I ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to be collaborating with the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan. We seem to h...

My Lords, my Amendment 43 tackles Clause 12(1), which expressly says that the duties in Clause 12...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Fox. I am afraid that on this issue...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, in her very moving and ...

My Lords, I contribute to this debate on the basis of my interests as laid out in the register: a...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan. I do s...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, said words to the effect that perhaps we should begin ...

That seemed to be provoked by me saying that we must look after the vulnerable, but I am suggesti...

I agree. The small list of individual items is the danger.

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, on the built-in obsolescence of any list. ...

Before the noble Baroness sits down, I wanted to ask for clarification, because I am genuinely co...

I do not have all the answers, but I do think we heard a very powerful point from the right rever...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support Amendments 34 and 35, from the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, a...

My Lords, this is my first contribution to the Bill, and I feel I need to apologise in advance fo...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak in this debate because I now need to declare an unusual int...

My Lords, this has been a very thoughtful and thought-provoking debate. I start very much from th...

My Lords, this has been one of the most important debates we have had so far in Committee, coveri...

Just to clarify, in a way we have reduced this debate to whether the default position should be o...

As ever, the noble Baroness is an important voice in bursting our bubble in the Chamber. I contin...

My Lords, the Government recognise the objectives of the amendments in this group: to strengthen ...

Does the Minister therefore think that the Government condone the current system, where we are in...

We will come to talk about algorithms and their risks later on. There is an important balance to ...

Because of the importance of that point in relation to what the Minister is about to say, we shou...

We will come in a moment to the provisions that are in the Bill to make sure that decisions can b...

I think the Minister is trying to answer the point raised by my noble friend about vulnerable adu...

That is right. Platforms are not in the public sector, so the public sector equality duty does no...

My Lords, what distinguishes young adults from older adults in what the Minister in saying?

In law, there is nothing. I am engaging with the point that there is no cliff edge. There are pro...

Surely, this is precisely the point that the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, was making. As soon as ...

There is not this cliff edge which noble Lords have feared—that there are protections for childre...

There is an element of circularity to what the Minister is saying. This is precisely why we are a...

Perhaps it would help if the Minister wanted to just set out the difference for us. Clearly, this...

Once somebody becomes an adult in law at the age of 18, they are protected through the triple shi...

I understand all of that—I think—but that is not the regime being applied to children. It is real...

Before the Minister stands up—a new phrase—can he confirm that it is perfectly valid to have a ch...

It would be, but we fear the chilling effect of having the choice imposed on people. As the noble...

I will try to help the Minister. If the amendment has been poorly drafted, I apologise. It does n...

Thank you. I may be reading the noble Lord’s Amendment 38A excessively critically. I will look at...

Several times in the Bill—but this is a clear example—the drafters have chosen to impose a differ...

The discrepancy comes from the point we touched on earlier. Ofcom, as a public body, is subject t...

The noble Lord made that point before, and I was going to pick him up on it. It really is not rig...

The content which we have added to Clause 12 is a targeted approach. It reflects input from a wid...

I appreciate the Minister’s comments but, as I have tried to indicate, incitement to hatred and a...

But as I think the noble Baroness understands from that reference, this is a definition already i...

I noted the points made about the way information is pushed and, in particular, the speech of the...

We will discuss this when it comes to the definition of content in the Bill, which covers feature...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend very much indeed, and thank all noble Lords who have taken part...

I advise the Committee that if Amendment 38 is agreed to, I shall not be able to call Amendment 3...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

38: Clause 12, page 12, line 24, leave out subsection (6)

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My Lords, I am going to endeavour to be relatively brief. I rise to move Amendment 38 and to spea...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 106 in my name and the names of my noble and learned friend L...