Moved by
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
171: After Clause 54, insert the following new Clause—
““Primary priority content that is harmful to children”
(1) “Primary priority content that is harmful to children” means content of any of the following kinds.
(2) Pornographic content, other than content within subsection (6).
(3) Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for suicide.
(4) Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of deliberate self-injury.
(5) Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder.
(6) Content is within this subsection if it—
(a) consists only of text, or
(b) consists only of text accompanied by—
(i) identifying content which consists only of text,
(ii) other identifying content which is not itself pornographic content,
(iii) a GIF which is not itself pornographic content,
(iv) an emoji or other symbol, or
(v) any combination of content mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iv).
(7) In this section and section (“Priority content that is harmful to children”) “injury” includes poisoning.”
Member’s explanatory statement
This amendment describes which kinds of content count as primary priority content harmful to children for the purposes of Part 3 of the Bill.