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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q You mean completely? Just delete it? Kyle Taylor: Well, I am struggling to understand how we can look at the Bill and say, “If this entity says it, it is somehow less harmful…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)We are talking here about the press, not about politicians— Kyle Taylor: Yes, but the press and media entities spread a lot of disinformation—24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I get that. You have mentioned Victor Orbán and the press already in your comments. There is a long-standing western tradition of treating freedom of the press as something that…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 (First sitting)Q Thank you. Forgive me for moving on in the interests of time. Earlier, we debated content of democratic importance and the protections that that and free speech have in the…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 (First sitting)Q If I understood your answer correctly, that is only if a particular piece of content comes to the attention of your moderators. I imagine that only 0.01% or some tiny fraction…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q I want to move on to the next question because we only have two minutes left. Ben, you talked about the age verification measures that TikTok currently takes. For people who do…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Sir Roger, and thank you very much indeed for joining us for this afternoon’s session. Adam, we almost met you in Leeds last October or November, but I think you were…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Okay, I take your second point, but did you agree with the point that the Bill as crafted does not restrict what you would ordinarily consider to be free speech? Professor Clare…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 (First sitting)Q Just to continue the point made by my colleague, you are right to say that Ministry of Justice colleagues are considering the flashing image offence as a separate matter. But…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q I would suggest that the definition in clause 150 would cover epilepsy trolling. You mentioned that you met recently with European regulators. Briefly, because we are short of…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Good—thank you. I want to say something about gaming, because Kirsty Blackman asked about it. If messages are being sent back and forth in a gaming environment, which is…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you for coming to give evidence to the Committee. On the question about user choice around identity verification, is this not conceptually quite similar to the existing…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Including inside the end-to-end encrypted environment, rather than just at the device level? Quite a few of the safety challenge solutions that Ian mentioned are at the device…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Everything I was going to ask has already been asked by my colleagues, so I will not duplicate that.24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Can I start by thanking both Rhiannon-Faye and Susie for coming and giving evidence, and for all the work they are doing in this area? I know it has been done over many years in…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 Sorry, Kyle, do come in in a second, but I just want to come back on that point. Is it not true that a member of the public or anyone debating a legitimate political topic would…24 May 2022