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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I have one last question. Rhiannon, a suggestion was made earlier by Dr Rachel O’Connell about age verification and only allowing children to interact with other children whose…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q You have done a really good job of explaining the concerns about journalistic content. Thinking about the rest of the Bill for a moment, do you think the balance between…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Thanks. On the propensity to cause harm, we heard earlier that a company might create a great new feature and put it out, but then there is a period—a lag, if you like—before…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q I have a few questions, but I will ask them in a short way, and hopefully the witnesses can answer them in a fairly short way too. The chief executive of Ofcom told the Joint…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Do you feel that the Bill will allow you to adequately regulate online gaming, which is how an awful lot of young people use the internet, in a way that will keep them safer…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q My last question is about future-proofing the Bill. Obviously, an awful lot of things will happen in the online world that do not currently happen there, and some of those we…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q There has not been a huge amount of discussion of online gaming in the context of the Bill, despite the fact that for many young people that is the way in which they interact…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Do you think it would be reasonable for gaming companies in particular to have a setting whereby children or young people can choose to interact only with people in their…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Finally, could you explain breadcrumbing a little further? What does it mean and does the Bill tackle it adequately? Andy Burrows: Child abuse breadcrumbing is a major area of…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q You mostly talked about Facebook. Is it mostly the largest social media platforms, or are we talking about some of the smaller ones, such as Discord, which you mentioned? Would…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Thank you.24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q I have a quick question on parental digital literacy. You mentioned the panel that you put together of 16 to 21-year-olds. Do you think that today’s parents have the experience,…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q I have a few questions, starting with Twitter, in relation to young people using the platform. How do you currently make sure that under-13s do not use the platform? What…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q To follow up on that, you said that there is agreement internally and externally that your service is mostly used by over-18s. Does that mean that you do not think you will have…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Okay. Ben, for TikTok, how do you currently ensure that under-13s are not using your service, and how is that likely to change with the Bill coming in? Ben Bradley: We are a…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Does the response just say, “Thanks for your report”? Richard Earley: No. I want to be very constructive here. I should say that some of the concerns that are raised around this…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I would like to follow up with a question about responding to complaints. The complaints process is incredibly important. Reports need to be made and Facebook needs to respond…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Given the size of Facebook, a lot of our questions will be focused towards it—not that you guys do not have very large platforms, but the risks with social media are larger. You…24 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesIn giving some thought to what I might say today, I thought that the best way I could say, “Where is the employment Bill in this Queen’s Speech?”, would be to quote the Scottish…12 May 2022HANSARDFairness at Work and Power in CommunitiesWil the Minister give way?12 May 2022