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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Just one more question. We know that women and minorities face more abuse online than men do. Is that something that you have found in your experience, particularly Twitter?…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Both of your sites work very heavily on algorithms for the content that is put towards people. If you are in the top tweets feed on Twitter, you get algorithmically derived or…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q One of the things that has been recommended by a number of charities is increasing cross-platform and cross-company work to identify and take action on emerging threats. Do you…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I have a question for Katie on the algorithms that produce suggestions when you begin to type. It has been raised with me and in the evidence that we have received that when you…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Would it be technically possible for all of the protected characteristics, for example, to have no auto-complete prompts come up? Katie O'Donovan: That is an excellent question…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Would it not be easier to define all the protected characteristics and have a list of associated words than to define every possible instance of hate speech in relation to each?…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)May I just ask one more question, Chair?24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Is it technically possible—I do not need to know how—to verify the age of children who are under 16, for example? Dr Rachel O'Connell: Yes.24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Why is it important that we have this? Is this a big thing? What are you guys actually seeing here? Jessica Eagelton: I can respond to that in terms of what we are seeing as a…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q How does the proposed code of practice—or, I suppose, how could the Bill—tackle intersectionality of harms? Janaya Walker: This is a really important question. We often…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)I have a quite specific question on something that is a bit tangential.24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q If someone has consented to take part in pornography and they later change their mind and would like it to be taken down, do you think they should have the right to ask a porn…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q My first question is for Lulu. Do small tech companies have enough staff with technical expertise to be able to fulfil their obligations under the Bill? Lulu Freemont: It is a…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q So technology exists out there for that to happen. Dr Rachel O'Connell: Yes.24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Once we have the verification of those ages, do you think it would be possible or desirable to limit children’s interactions to only with other children? Is that the direction…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)For a game like Roblox, which is aimed at kids—it is a kids platform—if you had the age verification and if that worked, you could have a situation where a 13-year-old on Roblox…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Finally, do you think it would be desirable for Ofcom to consider a system with more consistency in parental controls, so that parents can always ensure that their children…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q The ability to scan is there right now—we have got that—so you are just trying to make sure we are standing still, basically. Am I correct in my understanding? Susie Hargreaves:…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Focusing on thinking about how to prevent grooming behaviour, does the Bill have enough in place to protect children from conversations that they may have adults, or from facing…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q You mentioned the reporting mechanisms that are in place, Susie. Yes, they are not the only tool, and should not be the only tool—many more things should be happening—but are…24 May 2022