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HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to have been part of this debate and to have heard how much we are on common ground. I very much hope that, in particular, the Minister will have…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillBefore the Minister stands up—a new phrase—can he confirm that it is perfectly valid to have a choice to lift the user empowerment tool, just as it is to impose it? Choice would…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThere is an element of circularity to what the Minister is saying. This is precisely why we are arguing for the default option. It allows this vulnerability to be taken account of.09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, what distinguishes young adults from older adults in what the Minister in saying?09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it has been interesting to hear so many noble Lords singing from the same hymn sheet—especially after this weekend. My noble friend Lord McNally opened this group by…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a very thoughtful and thought-provoking debate. I start very much from the point of view expressed by the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, and this brings the…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy birthday is in October, so I hope not.02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI hope that the Minister has in his brief a response to the noble Baroness’s point about Clause 11(14), which, I must admit, comes across extraordinarily in this context. She…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillCan the Minister assure us that he will take another look at this between Committee and Report? He has almost made the case for this wording to be taken out—he said that it is…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I think this may have been a brief interlude of positivity. I am not entirely convinced, in view of some of the points that have been made, but certainly I think that it…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, we have already had some very significant birthdays during the course of the Bill, and I suspect that, over many more Committee days, there will be many more happy…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, the proposers of these amendments have made a very good case to answer. My only reservation is that I think there are rather more subtle and proportionate ways of…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a really interesting debate. I started out thinking that we were developing quite a lot of clarity. The Government have moved quite a long way since we…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, put her finger exactly on the two questions that I wanted to ask: namely, why only category 1 and category 2A, and is there some rowing…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a very strange debate. It has been the tail end of the last session and a trailer for a much bigger debate coming down the track. It was very odd. We do…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Harding. If one is permitted to say this in the digital age, I am on exactly the same page as she is. There are two…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a really fascinating debate and I need to put a stake in the ground pretty early on by saying that, although my noble friend Lord Allan has raised some…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, if we needed an example of something that gave us cause for concern, that would be it; but a very good case has been made, certainly for the first half of the amendment…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am sorry, but can the Minister just clarify that? Is he saying that it is not possible to be covered by both Part 3 and Part 5, so that where a Part 5 service has user-generated…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, there is absolutely no doubt that across the Committee we all have the same intent; how we get there is the issue between us. It is probably about the construction of…25 Apr 2023