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HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this amendment would require the Secretary of State, when seeking to exercise certain powers in the Bill, to provide the relevant Select Committees of both Houses with…19 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill19 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the debate, despite my injunction that no one was to speak other than those key persons—but it was nice to hear views around…19 Jul 2023HANSARDCounter Disinformation UnitI accept the point made that the Counter Disinformation Unit sounds rather suspicious. The unit tracks narratives and trends using publicly available information. We all like a…18 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I think that was a very good speech from the noble Baroness, partly because I signed her amendment and support it and also because I want to refer back to the points…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, as others have said, this has been a very interesting tour d’horizon of some of the points in the Bill that we still need to resolve. I will not go over too much of the…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords—17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI respect the noble Lord’s point. I did not make a specific proposal; I simply asked why the Bill was framed in circumstances that are not those required by the Office of the…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a good debate. It is very hard to see where one would want to take it. If it proves anything, it is that the decision to drop the legal but harmful…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI would be grateful if the Minister could repeat that immediately afterwards, when I will listen much harder. Just to echo what the noble Baroness was saying, may we take it as an…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI hope they do not, and I think the Minister has to answer that question quite directly. The issue here is about quality material that would otherwise be taken down being kept in…12 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I was unfortunately unable to attend round 1 of this debate—I had to leave. My noble friend Lord Knight has absented himself from hearing what I am going to say about…12 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIt is always nice to be nice to the Minister. I will reference, briefly, the introduction of the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Fraser of Craigmaddie, which I…10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThere is always a simple question. We are in a bit of a mess—again. When I said at Second Reading that I thought we should try to work together, as was picked up by the noble…10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a good debate, perhaps unfairly curtailed in terms of the range of voices we have heard, but I am sure the points we wanted to have on the table are there…10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIs he not outrageous, trying to make appeals to one’s good humour and good sense? But I support him. I will say only three things about this brief but very useful debate. First, I…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, I want to make it very clear that I think the House as a whole welcomes the change of heart by the Government to ensure that we…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, much like the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, I started off being quite certain I knew what to say about these amendments. I even had some notes—unusual for me, I…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this is a quick-fire debate on matters where most of us probably cannot even understand the words, let alone the purpose and particularity of the amendments. I want to…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been an interesting debate that in a curious way moves us from the debate on the first group, which was about the high level of aspiration for this Bill, for…06 Jul 2023