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HANSARDOnline Safety BillI want to challenge the noble Baroness’s assertion that the Bill is not about children’s rights. Anyone who has a teenage child knows that their right to access the internet is…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIf my noble friend could, would he roll back the health and safety regulations for selling toys, in the same way that he seems so happy to have no health and safety regulations…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it is an honour, once again, to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, and the noble Lord, Lord Russell, in this Committee. I am going to speak in detail to the…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am afraid I may well have done. That list shows your Lordships some of the challenges we all have with the Bill. All these amendments seek to ensure that the codes of practice…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy noble friend the Minister did not address the concern I set out that the Bill’s approach will overburden Ofcom. If Ofcom has to review the suitability of each set of…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI rise very much to support the comments of my noble friend Lord Bethell and, like him, to thank the Minister for bringing forward the government amendments. I will try to address…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillPerhaps I might briefly come in. My noble friend Lord Moylan may have helped explain why we disagree: our definition of harm is very different. I am most concerned that we address…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillWhere are the commercial harms? I cannot totally get my head around my noble friend’s definition of content. I can sort of understand how it extends to conduct and contact, but it…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I support this group of amendments, so ably introduced by my noble friend and other noble Lords this afternoon. I am not a lawyer and I would not say that I am…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I rise to speak along similar lines to the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. I will address my noble friend Lord Moylan’s comments. I share his concern that we must not make…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am so sorry, but may I offer just one final thought from the health sector? While the noble Lord is right that where there are human beings there will be error, there is a…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, earlier today the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin, referred to a group of us as kindred spirits. I suggest that all of us contributing to this debate are kindred spirits…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 19, 22, 298 and 299 in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, and the noble Lords, Lord Knight and Lord Clement-Jones. I…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillWould the noble Lord acknowledge that app stores are already undertaking these age-rating and blocking decisions? Google has unilaterally decided that, if it assesses that you are…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this is not the first time in this Committee, and I suspect it will not be the last, when I rise to stand somewhere between my noble friend Lord Vaizey and the noble…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I too support this amendment. I was at a dinner last night in the City for a group of tech founders and investors—about 500 people in a big hotel ballroom, all focused…19 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it is an enormous privilege to follow so many powerful speeches. My second daughter was born in the year Facebook launched in the UK and Apple sold its first iPhone.…01 Feb 2023HANSARDInternational Holocaust Memorial DayMy Lords, I begin by declaring my interest as a member of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, on which it is a true privilege to serve. Like many others, I thank my noble friend…19 Jan 2023HANSARDBBC: Future Funding (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in the debate, although I fear that I will have no anecdotes to come close to those of the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley. I also congratulate…16 Dec 2022HANSARDPublic Service Broadcasting: BBC CentenaryMy Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating and welcoming my noble friend back to his rightful place on the Front Bench. I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster, for…03 Nov 2022