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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you to the witnesses for joining us and giving us such thorough and clear responses to the various questions. I want to start on a topic that William Perrin and William…26 May 2022HANSARDRacehorsesThe Government are extremely mindful of the challenges that the way the Northern Ireland protocol is being applied is imposing on communities across Northern Ireland. It clearly…26 May 2022HANSARDRacehorsesI thank my hon. Friend for his question and pay tribute to his tireless work campaigning on behalf of the horse-racing industry. The Government recognise the contribution that…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Harm: Women and GirlsThose things are already priority offences in schedule 7 to the Bill. The Bill went into Committee on Tuesday and I look forward to discussing with the shadow Minister and other…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Harm: Women and GirlsI strongly dispute the suggestion that the Bill does not protect women and girls. I have already said in response to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine West)…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Harm: Women and GirlsYes. The Bill is technology-agnostic, meaning that it does not refer specifically to technology because, obviously, technologies evolve all the time. My hon. Friend touches on…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Sorry to interject, but to be clear, the Bill does not do that. The Bill specifies the objectives, but it is tech agnostic. The manner of delivering those is, of course, not…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Can I start by thanking the NSPCC and you, Dame Rachel, and your office for the huge contribution that you have made to the Bill as it has developed? A number of changes have…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Sorry to interject, Dame Rachel, but do you agree that it is not just about stopping under-18s viewing pornography; it also includes stopping children under 13 accessing social…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. I obviously strongly agree with those comments. I would like to turn to a one or two points that came up in questioning, and then I would like to probe a couple of…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Andy. I am conscious of the time, so I will be brief with my final three questions. You made a valid point about large social media platforms receiving complaints…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q To be clear, those freedom of expression duties in clause 19(2) do apply to everyone. Katy Minshall: Sorry, but I do not know the Bill in those terms, so you would have to tell…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Welcome to the Committee’s proceedings and thank you for joining us this afternoon. I would like to start on the question of the algorithmic promotion of content. Last week, I…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Data, in particular on the operation of algorithmic promotion of particular kinds of content. Richard Earley: We already do things like that through the direct opportunity that…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Yet the algorithms that select particular content for promotion are optimised for user engagement —views, likes and shares—because that increases user stickiness and keeps them…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q You have alluded to some elements of the algorithmic landscape, but do you accept that the dominant feature of the algorithm that determines which content is most promoted is…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q It might have decreased it, but the meaningful social interaction score is, not exclusively, as you said, but principally based on user engagement, isn’t it? Richard Earley: As…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Sir Roger, and thank you to the witnesses for coming in and giving very clear, helpful and powerful evidence to the Committee this afternoon. On the question of age…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Yes, you are quite right that the Ofcom codes of practice will be important. As far as I can see, the difference between clauses 68 and 11(14) is that one uses the word “access”…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you very much. I wanted to ask you a different question—one that has not come up so far in this session but has been raised quite frequently in the media. It concerns…24 May 2022