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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister and indeed the Secretary of State for bringing forward these amendments in the fulsome manner that they have. I appreciate it, but I know that…10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 1, to which I was happy to add my name alongside that of the Minister. I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, for tabling the original…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI also want to support the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy. The level of abuse to women online and the gendered nature of it has been minimised; the perpetrators have clearly felt…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I understand that, as this is a new stage of the Bill, I have to declare my interests: I am the chair of 5Rights Foundation, a charity that works around technology and…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy comments will be rather shorter. I want to make a detailed comment about Amendment 5B, which I strongly support and which is in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Allan. It…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI also welcome these amendments and want to pay tribute to Maria Miller in the other place for her work on this issue. It has been extraordinary. I too was going to raise the…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI believe I misspoke when I asked my question. I referred to under-18s. Of course, if they are under 18 then it is child sexual abuse. I meant someone under the age of 18 with an…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I rise briefly to support many of the amendments in this group. I will start with Amendments 281, 281A and 281B in the name of my noble friend Lord Russell, to which I…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI may as well intervene now as well, so that the Minister can get a good run at this. I too am concerned at the answer that has been given. I can see the headline now, “Online…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendment 174 in my name and then more broadly to this group—I note that the Minister got his defence in early. On the question of…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillTo be clear, the point that I made about the BBFC was not to suggest a similar arrangement but to challenge the idea that we cannot categorise material of a sexualised nature.…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI will leap to the Minister’s defence on this occasion. I remind noble colleagues that this is not about individual pieces of content; there would have to be a consistent flow of…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI do indeed welcome it. I do not feel I can do justice to all the speakers; I think I will cry, as I did when the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, was speaking. I shall not do that,…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I enter the fray with some trepidation. In a briefing, Carnegie, which we all love and respect, and which has been fantastic in the background in Committee days, shared…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI wonder whether the Minister has an answer to the academic community, who now see their European colleagues getting ahead through being able to access data through other…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I too want to support this group of amendments, particularly Amendment 234, and will make just a couple of brief points. First, one of the important qualities of the…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will be even more direct than the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, and seek some confirmation. I understood from our various briefings in Committee that, where content is…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill22 Jun 2023