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HANSARDOnline Safety BillI would not want to disagree with the noble Baroness for a moment.02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I think the whole Committee is grateful to my noble friend Lady Ritchie for introducing these amendments so well. Clearly, there is a problem. The anecdote from the…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, we too support the spirit of these amendments very much and pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Russell, for tabling them. In many ways, I do not need to say very much.…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for engaging in dialogue while I am in a sedentary position, but I had better stand up. It is relevant to this Committee whether it is technically…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIs this technically possible?02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillDoes the Minister accept that that is not exactly what we were saying? We were not saying that they would have to eliminate all risk: they would have to design to eliminate risks,…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am grateful, as ever, to the noble Baroness, and I hope that has assisted the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey. Finally—just about—I will speak to Amendment 32A, tabled in my name, about…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am grateful to the noble Lord. In many ways, I am reminded of the article I read in the New York Times this weekend and the interview with Geoffrey Hinton, the now former chief…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I too agree that this has been a really useful and interesting debate. It has featured many birthday greetings to the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, in which I obviously…02 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIn that vein, will the noble Lord clarify whether that definition of content does not include paid-for content?27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I was not intending to intervene on this group because my noble friend Lord Stevenson will address these amendments in their entirety, but listening in to this public…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillBefore the Minister does so, can he give a sense of what he means by “best endeavours” for those technology companies? If it is not going to be general monitoring of what is…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, in keeping with the Stevenson-Knight double act, I am leaving it to my noble friend to wind up the debate. I will come in at this point with a couple of questions and…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I echo the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones. This is an important group of amendments, and it has been a useful debate. I was slightly concerned when I…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillCould it not be argued that the noble Lord is making a case for regulation of app stores? Let us take the example of Apple’s dispute with “Fortnite”, where Apple is deciding how…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI know it has been said that the large language models, such as that used by ChatGPT, will be in scope when they are embedded in search, but are they in scope generally?25 Apr 2023HANSARDFishing Industry: Visas for Foreign WorkersMy Lords, a week last Thursday, a good friend of mine in Orkney rang me in some distress. He runs a crab fishing business with two vessels, with several thousand crab creels at…24 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI strongly support my noble friend in his amendment. I clarify that, in doing so, I am occupying a guest slot on the Front Bench: I do so as a member of his team but also as a…19 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI very much agree. The core of what I want to say in supporting this amendment is that in Committee we will do what we are here to do. There are a lot of amendments to what is a…19 Apr 2023