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HANSARDOnline 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 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)There is a difference between random individuals posting stuff on Facebook, as opposed to content generated by what we have defined as a “recognised news publisher”. We will…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)The hon. Lady raises an important philosophical question that underpins much of the Bill’s architecture. All the measures are intended to strike a balance. Where there are things…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)The hon. Lady is correct in her analysis, I can confirm. Rather similar to the previous point, because of the interaction with freedom of the press—the argument that the…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for thinking about that so carefully. I look forward to her amendment. For my information, which clause does her amendment seek to amend?14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful. It is an important point.14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his service on the Joint Committee. I heard the representations of my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke about a Joint Committee, and I have…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her rapid description of that amendment. We will come to clause 189 in due course. The definition of “content” in that clause is, “anything communicated…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. First, clearly if something illegal is said online about someone, they would have the normal redress to go to the police and…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I will certainly come back with a more complete analysis of the point about protecting children—as parents, that clearly concerns us both. The literal definitions are that “aural”…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Batley and Spen for her speech. There is agreement across the House, in this Committee and in the Joint Committee that the commitment to having a free…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)For the sake of clarity, and for the benefit of the Committee and those who are watching, could the hon. Gentleman say a bit more about what he means by specialist publications…14 Jun 2022