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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)rose—14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)Will the Minister give way?14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)Again, Labour supports moves to ensure that there is some clarity about specific content that is deemed to be harmful to adults, but of course the Opposition have concerns about…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I completely agree with my hon. Friend. She is right to talk about the lack of a social and digital media strategy within the Bill, and the need to educate children and adults…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)Schedule 7 sets out the list of criminal content that in-scope firms will be required to remove as a priority. Labour was pleased to see new additions to the most recent…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)The amendments aim to capture all the criminal offences in other parts of the UK to be covered by the provisions of the Bill, as the Minister outlined. An offence in one part of…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)Good afternoon, Sir Roger; it is a pleasure, as ever, to serve under your chairship. I rise to speak to new clause 36, which has been grouped with amendment 142 and is tabled in…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)We just feel that amendment 61 outlines matters much more explicitly and leaves no ambiguity by clearly defining any “offences committed overseas within the scope of relevant…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for his comments. The Labour party has concerns that clause 52(9) does not adequately get rid of the ambiguity around potential illegal online…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful for the hon. Member’s contribution, and for her support for the amendment and our comments on the clause. The Bill should be made clearer, and I would appreciate an…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 61, in clause 52, page 49, line 5, at end insert— “(4A) An offence referred to in subsection (4) is deemed to have occurred if it would be an offence under…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)Briefly, as with earlier clauses, the Labour party recognises the challenge in finding the balance between freedom of expression and keeping people safe online. Our debate on the…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I am sorry, but I am having real trouble buying that argument. If the Minister is saying that newspaper comments sections are exempt in order to protect the free press because…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)Good morning, Ms Rees; it is, as always, a pleasure to serve under your chairship. Amendment 84 would remove the Secretary of State’s ability to modify Ofcom codes of practice…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)It is absolutely right that the Government have included a commitment to children in the form of defining primary priority content that is harmful. We all know of the dangerous…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I welcome the Minister’s comments and commitment to look at this further, and the Law Commission’s review being taken forward. With that in mind, I beg to ask leave to withdraw…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I am grateful to the right hon. Member for her intervention. She knows that I have the utmost respect for all that she has tried to achieve in this area in the House along with my…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend. As I have said, the amendments would put in place rock-bottom safety measures that could prevent the most appalling abuses on…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 114, in clause 68, page 60, line 13, at end insert— “(2A) A duty to verify that every individual featured in regulated provider pornographic content is an…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)Labour welcomes the important changes that have been made to the Bill since its original draft, which applied only to user-generated pornographic content. The Bill now includes…14 Jun 2022