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HANSARDOnline Safety BillWe are glad to have the noble Lord back. I want also to put on the record that the South West Grid for Learning is very supportive of this amendment.16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will speak in support of Amendments 250A and 250B; I am not in favour of Amendment 56, which is the compromise amendment. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, for…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am curious as to what the Bill says about misinformation and disinformation in relation to children. My understanding of primary priority and priority harms is that they concern…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillDoes the Minister know how many children are on computing courses?11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I shall say very briefly in support of these amendments that in 2017, the 5Rights Foundation, of which I am the chair, published the Digital Childhood report, which in a…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillTwice so far in his reply, the Minister has said that this measure will protect children from misinformation and disinformation. I was just curious because I have not seen any…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, over the last decade, I have been in scores of schools, run dozens of workshops and spoken to literally thousands of children and young people. A lot of what I pass off…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will speak to a number of amendments in this group. I want to make the point that misinformation and disinformation was probably the issue we struggled with the most…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThat seemed to be provoked by me saying that we must look after the vulnerable, but I am suggesting that we use UK law and the rights that are already established. Is that not…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillDoes the Minister therefore think that the Government condone the current system, where we are inundated algorithmically with material that we do not want? Are the Government…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI noted the points made about the way information is pushed and, in particular, the speech of the right reverend Prelate. Nothing in the Government’s response has really dealt…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord. Is the answer to my question that the blue tick and the current Meta system will not be considered as verification under the terms of the…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 141 and 303 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson. Before I do, I mention in passing how delighted I was to see Amendment 40, which…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI want to reassure the noble Baroness that we did discuss anonymity in relation to the issues that she has put forward. A company should not be able to use anonymity as an excuse…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, given the lateness of the hour, I will make just three very brief points. The first is that I find it really fascinating that the amendments in the name of the noble…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I rise to support the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan. I do so somewhat reluctantly, not because I disagree with anything that she said but…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, for his words—I thought I was experiencing time travel there—and am sympathetic to many of the issues that he has raised, although I…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillDoes the noble Lord think it is also important to have some idea of measurement? Age assurance in certain circumstances is far more accurate than age verification.02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI want to answer the point that amendments cannot be seen in isolation. Noble Lords will remember that we had a long and good debate about what constituted harms to children.…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIt is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Russell and to thank him for his good wishes. I assure the Committee that there is nowhere I would rather spend my birthday,…02 May 2023