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HANSARDONLINE SAFETY BILL (Second sitting)I totally appreciate the point that the hon. Lady makes, which is a different one. For gambling, the inducement to act straightaway often comes in the form of advertising. It…13 Dec 2022HANSARDONLINE SAFETY BILL (Second sitting)I rise briefly to say that the introduction of the shields is a significant additional safety measure in the Bill and shows that the Government have thought about how to improve…13 Dec 2022HANSARDONLINE SAFETY BILL (Second sitting)On that point, does my hon. Friend also agree that the priority legal offences are important too? People were prosecuted for what they posted on Twitter and Instagram about the…13 Dec 2022HANSARDONLINE SAFETY BILL (Second sitting)I am grateful for what the Minister has said, and glad that Ofcom will have a role in seeing that companies do not remove content that is not in breach of terms of service where…13 Dec 2022HANSARDONLINE SAFETY BILL (Second sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that the risk assessments that will be done on the priority illegal offences are very wide ranging, in addition to the risk assessments that will be done…13 Dec 2022HANSARDONLINE SAFETY BILL (First sitting)The hon. Lady is talking about an incredibly important issue, but the Bill covers such matters as credible threats to life, incitement to violence against an individual, and…13 Dec 2022HANSARDONLINE SAFETY BILL (First sitting)As a Back-Bench Member of Parliament, I recommended that the “legal but harmful” provisions be removed from the Bill. When I chaired the Joint Committee of both Houses of…13 Dec 2022HANSARDONLINE SAFETY BILL (First sitting)The hon. Lady is right: the Bill does not require the removal of legal speech. Platforms must take the issue into account—it can be risk assessed—but it is ultimately their…13 Dec 2022HANSARDONLINE SAFETY BILL (First sitting)My hon. Friend mentioned earlier that companies will not be able to remove content if it is not part of their safety duties or if it was not a breach of their terms of service. I…13 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for what he has said, and for his significant work on the Committee. There is a great deal that we could say about this Bill, but let me end by…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety Billrose —05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillOf course.05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI agree with my hon. Friend, which is why I think it is important that immigration offences were included in schedule 7 of the Bill. I think this is something my right hon. Friend…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillRather than it being magic, does my right hon. Friend agree that a company could not ignore it if we demystified the process? By saying there is an existing technology that is…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillMy right hon. Friend is right to raise this important point. The big area here is not only clickbait, but AI-generated recommendation tools, such as a news feed on Facebook or…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI welcome my hon. Friend to his position. Under the Bill, is it not the case that if a company refuses to use existing technologies, that will be a failure of the regulatory…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillThe hon. Gentleman will remember that, when we served on the Joint Committee that scrutinised the draft Bill, we were concerned that the term “legal but harmful” was problematic…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillMy right hon. Friend makes an important point about this being a cross-Government effort. The Online Safety Bill creates a regulatory framework for the internet, but we need to…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillAs Members know, there is a tradition in the United States that when the President signs a new Bill into law, people gather around him in the Oval Office, and multiple pens are…05 Dec 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI will dare to give way to yet another former Committee Chair—the former chair of the Public Accounts Committee.05 Dec 2022