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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fifth sitting)I appreciate that the Minister says he has been swithering on this point—he has been trying to work out the correct place to draw the line. Given that we do not yet have a…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fifth sitting)I want to talk about a few different things relating to the amendments. Speaking from the Opposition Front Bench, the hon. Member for Pontypridd covered in depth amendment 20,…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fifth sitting)If the rules are so bad that people can circumvent them, they are not good enough anyway and they need to be updated, but I have a specific question on this. The Minister says…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)I am sorry, Ms Rees, but I am afraid that I cannot hear you very well.07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)Specifically on that, I understand the point the hon. Gentleman is making and appreciate his clarification. However, on something such as Snapchat, if somebody takes a photo, it…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)I have a couple of comments, particularly about amendments 15 and 16, which the Minister has just spoken about at some length. I do not agree with the Government’s assessment that…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)Sometimes we miss out the fact that although MPs face abuse, we have a level of protection as currently elected Members. Even if there were an election coming up, we have a level…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)I will first speak to our amendment 85, which, like the Labour amendment, seeks to ensure that the Bill is crystal clear in addressing intersectionality. We need only consider the…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)I am sorry to disagree with the Minister so vigorously, but that is a rubbish argument. It does not make any sense. There is a difference between wanting to filter out everybody…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)Aberdeen North.07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)I want to make a few comments on the amendment. As a younger female parliamentarian, I find that I am often asked to speak to young people about becoming an MP or getting involved…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)But clause 150(5) says that if a message “is, or is intended to be, a contribution to a matter of public interest”, people are allowed to send it, which basically gives everybody…07 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixth sitting)I know we are not discussing that part of the Bill, and if the Minister wants to come back to this when we get to clause 150, I have no problem with that.07 Jun 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsPeople across the UK are dying younger as a result of UK Government austerity. A new Glasgow University and Glasgow Centre for Population Health report has found: “Austerity is…06 Jun 2022HANSARDEconomy UpdateIt is quite amusing to hear the Chancellor talk about this announcement being timely. I mean, it is timely: it just happens to have happened in the week of the Sue Gray report. It…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Lynn, does the Bill ensure that children are kept as safe as possible online? If not, what improvements need to be made to it so that they are? Lynn Perry: There are several…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourth sitting)Q How much of an impact will the Bill have on the likelihood of children being subjected to online grooming and predatory behaviour? Lynn Perry: There are some contextual…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourth sitting)Q In terms of online gaming, and predators moving children from more mainstream to less regulated platforms, do you think there are improvements in the Bill that relate to that,…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I have a question for the Centre for Countering Digital Hate. I raised some of your stats on reporting with Meta—Facebook—when they were here, such as the number of reports that…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I have a quick question for Poppy, although I am afraid it might not have a quick answer. How much of an impact does the algorithmic categorisation of things—the way we are fed…26 May 2022