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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Let me start with amendments 50 and 51, which were introduced by the shadow Minister and supported by the SNP spokesperson. The Government recognise the valid intent behind the…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)One of the pieces of legislation that could be used is this Bill, because it is in scope. If the hon. Lady can bear with me until Report, I will say more about the specific…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)No, it is not a bonus, because we cannot have two different laws that criminalise the same thing. We want to have laws that are, essentially, mutually exclusive. If a person…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The hon. Lady made some points about the matter in an earlier sitting, as the shadow Minister just said. It is an area we are giving some careful thought to, because it is…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I welcome the shadow Minister’s support for the clause, once again. The clause provides Ofcom with the power to publish relevant reports about online safety matters to keep users,…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I think the Committee, and the House, are pretty unanimous in agreeing that the power to make super-complaints is important. As we have discussed, there are all kinds of groups,…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)That is obviously an operational matter for Ofcom. We would encourage it to do as much as possible. We encouraged it through our media literacy strategy, and it published an…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Let me start by addressing the point that was raised by the hon. Member for Aberdeen North on Ofcom’s power to issue media literacy advice of its own volition, which is the…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Is the hon. Member aware of a similar situation that arose more recently with Strava? People’s running routes were publicly displayed in the same way, which led to incidents of…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The hon. Lady is suggesting a practical solution: a default limit that can be extended if the case is very complicated. That sort of structure can certainly be consulted on and…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Let me move on to clause 141 and amendment 153, which the hon. Lady spoke to a moment ago. Let us first talk about the question of time limits. As she said, the regulations that…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)As we have heard, the super-complaint process is extremely important for enabling eligible entities representing the interests of users or members of the public to make…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Would the hon. Lady not agree that in all those examples—including TikTok and leading people down dark paths—the conditions in subsection (2) would be met? The examples she has…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Is that a rhetorical question?21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Last week or the week before, we debated extensively the points about the extraterritorial application to protecting children, and I made it clear that the Bill protects people as…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Once again, the shadow Minister has described the various clauses in this group. They speak, as she said, to the important and very strong measures around information offences. It…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I thank the Members who have contributed to the debate. Rather like with the provisions in clause 150, which we discussed a few minutes ago, a difficult and delicate balance needs…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is a fair question. There might be circumstances in which somebody simply misjudges a situation—has not interpreted it correctly—and ends up committing a criminal offence;…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)In this clause we are specifically talking about access to information for researchers. Obviously, the transparency matters were covered in clauses 64 and 135. There is consensus…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Which one?21 Jun 2022