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HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 190 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and Amendment 285 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson. That is not to say that I do…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI thank the noble Lord for the intervention. For those noble Lords who are not following the numbers, Amendment 285, which I support, would prevent general monitoring. Apart from…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I agree in part with the noble Lord, Lord Moylan. I was the person who said that small was not safe, and I still feel that. I certainly do not think that anything in the…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillAt the centre of this is the question of whether we are trying to block the entire service or block at the level of porn content. It is the purpose of a set of amendments in the…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I refer the Committee to my interests as put in the register and declared in full at Second Reading. I will speak to Amendment 2 in my name and those of the right…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI want to reassure the noble Lord: I have his blog in front of me and he was quite right—there were not a lot of children on that site. It is a very good blog, which I read…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am sorry to interrupt. Will the Minister take the opportunity to say what “significant” means, because that is not aligned with the ICO code, which has different criteria?25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI thank the Minister for an excellent debate; I will make two points. First, I think the Minister was perhaps answering on my original amendment, which I have narrowed…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI will speak to a couple of the amendments in this group. First, small is not safe, and you cannot necessarily see these platforms in isolation. For example, there is an incel…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillFar be it for me to suggest that all the amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, are in the wrong place, but I think that Amendment 26 might have been better debated…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI just want to make the point that I was talking about zero tolerance at the end of a ladder of tolerance, just to be clear. Letting a seven-year-old child into an 18-plus dating…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI also welcome these amendments, but I have two very brief questions for the Minister. First, in Amendment 27A, it seems that the child risk assessment is limited only to category…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I draw attention to my interests in the register, which I declared in full at Second Reading. It is an absolute pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, and,…19 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI just want to say to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, that we are not looking to mollycoddle children or put them in cotton wool; we are asking for a system where they are not…19 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I declare my interests as chair of 5Rights Foundation and the Digital Futures Commission, my positions at Oxford and LSE and at the UN Broadband Commission and the…01 Feb 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillTo ask His Majesty’s Government, in light of the Prevention of Future Deaths Report published at the conclusion of the Molly Russell inquest, what plans they have to bring forward…07 Nov 2022HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, in begging leave to ask the Question of which I have given private notice, I declare my interests, particularly as founder and chair of 5Rights Foundation.07 Nov 2022HANSARDOnline Safety BillI thank the Minister for that reply and am happy to see him back in his place. However, after four years of waiting, I am afraid his Answer was not quite good enough. Coroner…07 Nov 2022HANSARDMedia LiteracyMy Lords, many digital literacy programmes are provided free of charge to schools by private companies with an emphasis that teaches children about user behaviour rather than the…20 Jun 2022