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HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am in the slightly strange position of not having moved the amendment, but I want to quickly respond. I was slightly encouraged by what the Minister said about Ofcom…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I had better start by declaring an interest. It is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, because my interest is directly related to the ombudsman…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillWhat recourse would they have, if Ofcom will not deal with individual complaints in those circumstances?16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it has just occurred to me what the answer is to the question, “Where does an individual actually get redress?” The only way they can get redress is by collaborating…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillSo it is not really a complaints system; it is a horizon-scanning system. That is interesting.16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this is unfamiliar territory for me, but the comprehensive introduction of the noble Baroness, Lady Fraser, has clarified the issue. I am only disappointed that we had…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, for introducing the amendments in the way she did. I think that what she has done, and what this whole debate has done, is to…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe Minister is going through the structure of the Bill and saying that what is in it is adequate to prevent the kinds of harms to vulnerable adults that we talked about during…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will be very brief. My noble friend has very eloquently expressed the support on these Benches for these amendments, and I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for opening the group. This is a slightly novel procedure: he has rebutted our arguments before we have even had a chance to put them—what is new? I…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has probably been the most constructive and inspiring debate that we have had on the Bill. In particular, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Knight, for introducing this…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. I absolutely agree with what the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, said right at the beginning of her speech. This was one of the…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, I have no major objection and support the Government’s amendments. In a sense the Minister got his retaliation in first, because…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been an interesting short debate and the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, made a very simple proposition. I am very grateful to her for introducing this so clearly…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI hope the Minister will forgive me for interrupting, but would it not be much easier for Ofcom to assess compliance if a risk assessment had been carried out?09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillSurely, this is precisely the point that the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, was making. As soon as you reach 18, there is no graduation at all. There is no accounting for vulnerable…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThat is a very fair description. We have tried to emphasise throughout the discussion on the Bill that it is about not just content but how the system and algorithms work in terms…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI entirely understand what the noble Baroness is saying, and I know that she feels particularly strongly about these issues given her experiences. The whole Bill is about trying…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillOf course. I think we looked at it in the round and thought that stripping away anonymity could in many circumstances be detrimental to those, for instance, working in hostile…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, what an unusually reticent group we have here for this group of amendments. I had never thought of the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, as being like Don Quixote, but she…09 May 2023