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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am delighted to discover that agreement with the Governments clauses continues to provoke a tsunami of unanimity across the Committee. I sense a gathering momentum behind these…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am delighted that support for the Government’s position on the clauses continues and that cross-party unanimity is taking an ever stronger hold. I am sure the Whips Office will…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)I understand the spirit behind these amendments, focusing on the word “presence” rather than “prevalence” in various places. It is worth keeping in mind that throughout the Bill…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move amendment 6, in clause 104, page 89, line 14, after “(2)(f)” insert “, (g)” This amendment ensures that subsection (3) of this clause (which clarifies what “relevant…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)I welcome the cross-party support for the provisions set out in these important clauses. Clause 107 points out the requirement for Ofcom to publish guidance, which is extremely…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)I understand the shadow Minister’s point. We all heard from Frances Haugen about the social media firms’ well-documented reluctance—to put it politely—to open themselves up to…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am answering slightly off the cuff, but I think the point the hon. Lady is raising—about where some potentially offensive or illegal content is produced on one service and then…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)This data is a little different—the two domains do not directly correspond. In the health area, there has been litigation—an artificial intelligence company is currently engaged…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)Yes, I would agree that bona fide academic independent researchers do have something to offer and to add in this area. The more we have highly intelligent, experienced and…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)The shadow Minister has set out the provisions in the clauses, and I am grateful for her support. In essence, clauses 112 to 117 set out the processes around confirmation…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank right hon. and hon. Members who have participated in the debate on this extremely important clause. It is extremely important because the Bill’s strongest provisions…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I think it would cover some of them. If, for example, someone in a relationship had a video taken that was then made available on a commercial pornography site, that would clearly…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)The shadow Minister has laid out compellingly how awful the displaying of images of children on pornography websites and the displaying of images where the consent of the person…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and for his work on the Joint Committee, which has had a huge impact, as we have seen. I hope that colleagues will join me in thanking…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a great shame that the hon. Member for Ochil and South Perthshire is occupied in the main Chamber, because I could have pointed to this change as one of the examples of the…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I obviously have sympathy with the objectives, but the topics covered in schedule 8, which include the systems and processes for responding to illegal and harmful content and so…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)To start with, it is worth saying that clause 64 is extremely important. In the course of debating earlier clauses, Opposition Members rightly and repeatedly emphasised how…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I anticipate that the National Crime Agency will issue best practice guidance. A fair amount of information about the requirements will also be set out in the regulations that the…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)If the child had been in the UK when the offence was committed, that would ordinarily be subject to UK criminal law, because the crime would have been committed in the UK. The…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 62 creates an offence, as we discussed earlier, of knowingly or recklessly providing inaccurate information to the NCA in relation to CSEA reporting, the penalty for which…14 Jun 2022